Re: Date Field block size

On 12/23/05, Robert Cozzi <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Isn't that the number of records for sequential "get" operations? Not a
> block size?  Year ago, I remember Dick Bains mentioning that using the
> NBRRCDS() parm with the number of records set to the record count of the
> file was a way to cache the file into storage.


I have seen the NBRRCDS() parm, and I have tried to use it, but for some
reason, it doesn't seem to make the READs read more records in the buffer.
I am usually trying to read from a file in key sequence (which makes
SEQONLY() _sound_ like the wrong parm to use).  If I use SEQONLY, I can view
the number of records read as the job is running, and see that it is
grabbing more records at a time.  If I use NBRRCDS, it only grabs the
default number of records.

I just wish that, for Christmas one year, we had a way to specify on the
F-spec, how many records to read into the buffer on each READ.  It could be
as simple as

     FDuje_log  IF   E           K Disk    Block(*Yes 1026)

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