Re: Duplicate input files

In article <12eglij45hop49b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
HeyBub <heybubNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
charles hottel wrote:

A very long, long time ago I had a program that processed an index
sequential dataset using COBOL with two DCBs pointing to one dataset.
One processed it sequentially and the other processed it randomly,
but both were input/read only.

I, too, once upon a time when there were dragons in the land.

It's not necessary any more.

If there are lessons which might be learned from such activities and such
activities alone... then in order to learn said lessons it would seem to
be necessary. Granted that programs using these arcane techniques might
never see the light of Prod... to know the techniques, however, might be a
very useful thing, indeed.

DD

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