At 16:33 -0700 on 04/03/2012, Frank Swarbrick wrote about Re: VSAM
help wanted for random reads:
The idea of putting the record type at the end rather than the
beginning is an interesting idea.Ý Unless there's some way of doing
that without having to change any programs I don't think we'd want
to take the time.Ý However I am interested enough to try it with
this one program and see what effect it has.
Create an AIX pointing at the file with the AIX key being the account
number followed by the record type. Change the update program's logic
to access and update the AIX not the BASE File. All other programs
access the BASE file as at present. Note that this requires you to
look for ACCOUNT-NUMBER suffixed by 4 and look for equal-to or
greater (ie: Accept the type 5 if it gets returned due to no type 4).
Also you need to check the returned account number in case there is
no 4 or 5 for the account number.
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