Type of Change: Enhancement
Product: ACUCOBOL-GT
Module: vutil
New Version: 10.0
Machines Affected: All
Known Versions Affected:
Description of enhancement
A new option for vutil -unload allows reading the records from the source file without using the index. By default, the records are read in primary key order as they are unloaded to the destination file. In a large file, reading all the records by the primary key can be slow if the actual record data is not generally ordered by the primary key.
Specifying the -r sub-option to vutil -unload will cause the records to be read in the order in which they occur in the data file, without using the index; the order of the records in the destination file is undefined. This option is not effective when unloading Vision 2 or Vision 3 files.
Instructions for use
Add the -r option to your vutil -unload command to read the keys directly, avoiding the index.