Title: Making a Mountain into a Molehill in a Mainframe Environment Using Multi-Step Processing and other Masterly Maneuvers
Abstract: Sharing a mainframe with tens or hundreds of other programmers can be a ftustrating experience for yourself and/or others - especially if your program is c:alling a significant amount of resources, wbicb could slow the processing of your co-workers projects. If all of the data you need to access for your project resides in disk packs, your job is relatively easy, On the other band, if your organization bas multiple forms of data storage media and limits on the number of tape drives you are allowed to access for a single project, then multi-step processing with temporary datasets is the solution for you. Furtbennore, processing time and CPU time is very valuable in today's information hungry world and with large projects, it is important to do all you can to get your program to run as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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