On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:32:00 +0900, Timothy Sipples <e99...@jp.ibm.com> wrote:
>Ed Gould writes: >>Yes there is. Just last month the *OLD* table problem popped up. >>User needs LARGE in storage table (10G). Her only option was to. >>write the file to a VSAM data set and do inquiries on it with >>I/O. The run time (even with CI's in memory) was about 4 hours.. >>She did a rough quicky assembler and it was less that 10 minutes >>(elapsed on both numbers). > >If you've got CICS, how about using a 64-bit container? This feature is >available starting in CICS Transaction Server Version 3.2 (in 2007), when >containers were moved above the bar. They should be quite transparent to >your 31-bit application. (Just call CICS and let it do the lifting.) It's >hard to say what CPU time you'd see, but my guess is it'd be closer to the >10 minute number for a comparable run. > Sorry, but CICS can't help in this case. The container still needs to be constructed below the bar, so the size is restricted to what can be fitted into EDSA storage. Tom Grieve CICS Development IBM Hursley Park ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html