Re: What VvRr was BLOCK(*YES) added?

["Buck" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Record blocking has been around since at least the System/3 days of RPG
> II. I learned it 30 years ago at my first programming class at the IBM
> branch.

We could use double-buffering in S/3 RPG II.  And S/38 blocking was enabled
by the compiler for sequential input (like input primary) but sometimes the
runtime wasn't as efficient as we wanted so we used OVRDBF SEQONLY(*YES nnn)
and specified the number of records we wanted 'pre-fetched'.

> IIRC, BLOCK(*YES) was available for the first release
>of the OS for the System/38. Maybe some of the other
>greybeards can confirm this.

For the F-specification BLOCK(*YES), it's in my V4R4 RPG IV reference
manual.  For OVRDBF, it's in the first release of CPF.
  --buck