Re: Reset data


"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Arnold Trembley" <arnold.trembley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pete Dashwood wrote:
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How would the result of doing that (taking twice as much storage as you
actually need, and running the risk of forgetting to update one of the
tables when the structure changes) differ from...

INITIALIZE TABELLE ?

If you are INITIALIZE'ing a structure, the generated code will have an
explicit move for each elementary field. I know it works this way in
Enterprise COBOL for zOS.
[snip]
In this case you are saying
that the size of a second table will be less than all the move statements
required to initialize it, if INITIALIZE is used. So, it is the second
table
and a single group move, against the elemental moves required for each
element.

No! No! Size doesn't matter! It's performance that
counts! <g>



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