> - switch from EXECIO to a pipeline
>
> I'd recommend switching to a pipeline.
Please, don't change a REXX construct like this to PIPE (I saw that be
done more than once)
do ......
...
'EXECIO 1 DISKW fn ft fm (VAR xxx'
end
into
do ......
...
'PIPE VAR XXX|>> fn ft fm'
end
The reason: EXECIO leaves the file open after each record. Writing to an
open file is much quicker than what PIPE does here above: Open, Write,
Close.
I'm not saying that execs should not close the files they use: if there is
one file that remains open, updates to all other files are not commited to
disk. Only when all files are closed,you can be sure everything is saved
to disk.
Kris,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support
