Re: Implicit Access Path Sharing

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

David,

At 11:58 AM 4/29/99 +0100, you wrote:

>>You want the process the file sequentially by key for
>>update but don't want to lock every record and lose
>>blocking.  You use one logical for IP and the second
>>for UF and CHAIN/UPDAT only when necessary.

>Could you not achieve the same thing without actually creating the second
>logical? You define it in your program, and at compile and run time you
>simply override it to the first logical.

 I don't like that solution.

1)  This is an extra step to remember at compile time.
2)  Xref tools will not recognize that file properly.

 -mark

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