Re: Writing lots of records

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Last time I did something like this I messed with the blocking but the
biggest boost I got was from running chunks of the conversion in parallel.
I'm not sure if it is an option for you but I just divided the table I was
converting into chunks by record number and ran multiple jobs in parallel.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:00 AM <smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a conversion program that will end up writing over 300M 72byte
> records and I’m getting pressure to figure out if there is a way to speed
> it up.  Currently the program is using an F-spec.  There are no logicals
> over the file and even though there is a unique key, there is no way one
> could happen during conversion so I'm not checking or monitoring for one.
>
> Would changing to SQL help in any way?
> Can I change something related to the blocking?  I’ve never messed with
> blocking because the system does it automagically and I always figured it
> knew more than me.
> Are there other options that I might not have thought about…and no,
> writing less records is not an option. 😊
>
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