Yes I had meant 800,000 (close to 80 times more EXCP from with the
internal sort)

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Subject: Re: Cobol Internal sort and DLI Databases

Not that I have an answer but I wanted to confirm that you really meant
800,000 EXCP's and not 800,000,000 EXCP's.  Correct?  (800,000k =
800,000,000)


 On Tue Mar 27 11:46 , GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Does anyone know why when an Internal Sort is performed while a program
>also accessing a DLI Database That the amount of I/O against DLI
>increases by a few orders of magnitude?
>
> 
>
>I had a program extracting data off a DLI Database inside a Sort Input
>phase.  It was extracting only 181 records form 60,000 DLI Segments,
but
>taking over 800,000K EXCP I/O and 10 minutes.
>
> 
>
>When I instead just wrote the Sort Record to a Flat file and Eliminated
>the sort completely, It extract the same records, but only took 11,000
>EXCP I/O and about 5 seconds.
>
> 
>
>Thanks, 
>
> 
>
>Darren
>
>
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