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My manager is considering developing a storage algorithm to
store a variable length text field in a 32K record.
He plans to using a unique key field with a "pointer" into the
32K record; in essance "packing" multiple fields into one 32K
block.
I have suggest that a better method would be to
define the text field as VARLEN will an allocated length.
0001.00
A R
TEST00
0002.00 A TEXT 32000 VARLEN(100) ****************** End of data ************************* My manager is concerned by the amount of storage that
my suggestion would use... to much DASD" (as defined by the DSPFD
command).
Has anyone ever developed/used the "block"
method?
What other comments would you have on either
approach?
TIA
Michael Smith
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