SAVEDLISTS is a directory file. Searching a directory requires (on average) that you examine half the items in the directory before you find the one you want. Given a large directory, this can be very slow. (I once saw an example of a SAVEDLISTS directory with 275000 items in it!!)
If this is UniVerse, also check that the STACKWRITE record in your VOC says X OFF If it is at its default of ON, you save a command stack every time you log out. These are saved with a name of &&S.username.userno. The theory is that when you log back in, the system can reload your stack and you carry on as though you had not gone home. This was fine in the days of async comms lines where you got the same user number each time you logged in. With modern networks this is not true. The command stack you recover is yours but potentially from ages ago and hence totally useless. If you have, say, 100 users each with a unique user name, given long enough you will have 10000 totally useless command stack records killing performance of select list access. Scale this up to larger systems and the results are fascinating! [ Perhaps it's about time IBM reworked this "feature". I have been telling people to turn it off the the last ten years or so ]. Martin Phillips Ladybridge Systems 17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton NN4 6DB +44-(0)1604-709200 ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/