In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/08/2008 at 04:04 PM, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Ah, you're right. There's BPAM, That too, but I was refering to explicit sequential reading of a data set with KEYLEN=8, rather than the I/O done by BLDL and STOW. FWIW, I could have done the job just as easily without reading the keys. >I don't think BDAM is inefficient. Unblocked is usually inefficient. >Again, it depends on what he is trying to accomplish. Certainly, and he still hasn't said. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html