John, Tell them that their cobol routine will probably run around 11 times longer than the current assembler routine.
Our programmers used to use a cobol to read in a file, for ebcdic to ascii translation, and then this subprogram would be called for each record to convert from ebcdic to ascii. The job steps calling that routine spent over 90% of their cpu time in that subprogram. I re-wrote into hlasm, and eliminated at least 80-90% of the cpu time, just due to the efficiencies that the assembler code management of the data in a table, have vs cobol. Of course, if they don't care about performance, that's their choice, however, they should use the routines supplied by microfocus as those will most likely be written in a higher performing language than cobol is in the type of data manipulation that your hlasm routine is using. BTW, how much space are your SAN people complaining about? Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
