Hi Kurt,
Have you thought of using Sort API QLGSORT or user indexes?
Gary
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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:09 AM
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Subject: %lookup on a Data Structure Array
I'm trying to reduce some program I/O for program processing millions of
records. I've identified a file that I feel could be loaded into an
array instead of having the program chain out for every record. Usually
this file is between 100-1000 records. However one of our clients has
20,000 records in the file. So before making the change, I decided to
do a little reading on %lookup, to make sure I'd be using it correctly.
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/rpg/iSeries-EXTRA--Look-Befo
re-You--Lookup/
It turns out that I had misunderstood how to trigger the binary search
with a %lookup. I thought sorting the array was enough, however to get
the binary search one needs to explicitly specify Ascend or Descend on
the array.
So I went to add Ascend to a data structure array, and it won't let me:
D ds_Cust DS Qualified Inz Dim( 50000 )
Ascend
D Cust 3p 0
D Cycle 1a
Error: RNF3501E Keyword is not allowed for a data-structure definition;
keyword is ignored.
I tried adding the Ascend keyword to the subfield that I use in the
lookup, but it doesn't like that either (I wasn't expecting this to
work, but at this point I'm grasping at straws).
I suppose I could make these two fields their own arrays. Though I'm
not really a fan of that. I love using data structures to group
like-data together.
Is there any way to get the new data structure array lookups to use a
binary search?
Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
CustomCall Data Systems
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