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Hi Rich In the context of providing/exchanging data via HTML - say with SOAP, Web
services or some kind of process that hoovers up HTML into a database- it seems to me that the idea of sending 5000 records over the web is not as unlikely a scenario as it might seem.Certainly there are some data transfer needs out there. That wasn't the impression I got from the Buck's request, though. Human operators are good with a 'screenful' at a time. If he is really trying to move all the data, as in some kind of batch request, then I would consider constructing what an earlier poster to this thread proposed - a custom socket server. They aren't terribly difficult to write, even in RPG, and they are supposedly easy to read from Java.
But the services I am talking about are standard and won't give the network and firewall guys furrowed brows. Yes you can write a custom socket routine, but why would or should you if there is a standard, agreed way to do this over the wire (unless we are talking totally in-house). In the web world I see custom sockets programs and the like as something of a red herring; you then have to go back and agree the whole protocol/handshake thing whereas the HTML protocol (and all the associated bits now built around it) already does all that for you: hence the attractiveness of using that as a delivery medium despite the inefficiency. I am reminded of all those times when I ended up transferring data on diskette in CSV formats even when I knew the people I was dealing with could read the data in a format that was easier for me to produce: it just wasnt worth explaining to them how to do it. I didn't necessarily gather from Buck's post that there was or wasn't a human involved - I just made a comment that I could see a situation where 5000 records was not as impractical as it seemed on the surface of the question.
Given Buck's original request, I wonder if there is a way to send the first page of the HTML request (equivalent to the first page of the subfile) and somehow continue extracting the remainder of the data and cache it so that the query is executed once, but subsequent extracts do not have to repeat the database access.Many things can be cached. Some web setups cache pages. Some have caches of persistent database connections. I'm sure that a database recordset could somehow be cached, but I've never tried it. One reason why I haven't messed with building caches is that -- on an iseries anyway -- they seem perhaps as likely to wind up back on disk as they are to stay resident in memory. So, why bother? Also, data in caches does go stale -- and I usually want my users to see the most up to date data.
Depending on what kind of object it is cached in access time might be affected (I'd have to do some testing to examine this) you can walk through a user space pretty damn quickly using a pointer; SETOBJACC also offers some control over how this happens but I'm getting off the track: I think I pretty much agree with you about caching data as well as the points you made about data currency. Thinking about what I was proposing a better term might have been buffer. Regards Evan Harris
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