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Allowing one Recoup ECB to process more ordinals in a fixed record type is not intended to reduce Recoup run time. The purpose is to reduce overhead by reducing the number of ECB creates and exits. We understand the purpose of this RFE is to reduce Recoup run time when a very large number of ordinals are in a fixed record type (i.e. 4,000,000,000+ ordinals). If there are 4,000,000,000 ordinals in a fixed record type, the issue is that Recoup will find all 4,000,000,000 records to determine if there are chains. The time required to find the records drives Recoup run time. Reducing the time that Recoup needs to find 4,000,000,000 ordinals depends on several factors including: (1) I/O capacity in the LPAR; (2) I/O capacity in the DASD subsystem; (3) MIPs available on the LPAR; and (4) Available resources on TPF such as available ECBs. There may be other alternatives depending on how many pool records are referenced out of the fixed records.
This RFE does not address the real issue for Recoup run time. A separate conversation is needed to determine the best way to address Recoup run time when there is a large number of ordinals in a fixed record type.