RE: V5R2: Source now allowed in the IFS

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But would that be a valid test?  The bottom line is that I stored a source
member into the ifs and it took less than half the space that it did in
the qsys.lib directory.

But, just to get off on a tangent, confuse people, and waste time I did
the following:
RMVM FILE(ROB/SCOTT) MBR(*ALL)
ADDPFM FILE(ROB/SCOTT) MBR(ORD500)
DSPOBJD OBJ(ROB/SCOTT) OBJTYPE(*FILE)
Object      Type      Attribute               Size
SCOTT       *FILE     PF                     24,576
Then I editted it and stuck 1000 lines in it.
DSPOBJD OBJ(ROB/SCOTT) OBJTYPE(*FILE)
Object      Type      Attribute               Size
SCOTT       *FILE     PF                    114,688

EDTF STMF('/rob/scott2.rpg')
added 1000 lines, each with 92 characters, all like the following:
....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8....+....9..
12345678911234567892123456789312345678941234567895123456789612345678971234567898123456789912

WRKLNK OBJ('/rob/scott2.rpg')
8=Display attributes
Allocated size of object . . . . . . . :   98,304

Granted, that is a little closer, but how many source files use all 92
characters, on every line?  My sample of a real world RPG program took
less than half the space as a source physical file.

Source physical files gobble disk space.


Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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"Hall, Philip" <phall@spss.com>
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Rob,

The difference is that for PF, the space for the whole record is required
even if you only have 1 character in the record. For the IFS, all the
'whitespace' is removed.

Try creating a IFS file with all the lines filled out to 92 chars...

--phil



-----Original Message-----
From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:33 PM
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Subject: Re: V5R2: Source now allowed in the IFS


DSPOBJD OBJ(ROB/SCOTT) OBJTYPE(*FILE)
Object      Type      Attribute               Size
SCOTT       *FILE     PF                   2,220,032

WRKLNK OBJ('/rob/scott.rpg')
8=Display attributes
Size of object data in bytes . . . . . :   993,443

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