I honestly haven't heard anyone mention Skipper in....at least 15
years.  I used to work on a payroll system from Datacon (I think that's
it, it was a long time ago), that used skipper routines.  As I remember
Skipper was just a front end for calling image and vplus routines.  I'd
guess that you would have no need for skipper, and of course, you're
getting lots of good feedback on sorted paths.

Thanks for helping stretch my memory, although to be honest, maybe
those days should stay buried somewhere ;-)

Jim




----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:25 pm
Subject: [HP3000-L] Skipper for Image and V-Plus

> Hello to all,
>
> Quick question;
>
> I am in the process of designing an Image database, for quick day-time
> inquiry, batch updates run at night. Because of this kind of database
> usage, and the fact that it is mainly static historical data, and fast
> retrieval is the number one requirement. I have used lots of paths,
> including sorted paths. So called experts tell me all the time,
> not to
> used too many paths, and never sorted paths. I disagree with
> unconditional rules,  Like Never! Why is it that Image has sorted
> paths?Like: Lets design in a feature, and tell everyone to avoid
> it at all
> cost, doh. I understand the overhead, but that's only during
> DBPUT,DBDELETE, right? Just looking at and old 1984 article that made
> mention of Skipper. Has anyone ever used Skipper, a COBOL
> interface for
> Image (on-the-fly chain sorts). I am curious about it, what it is, or
> was, anyone know of this?
>
> Would it be a wiser use of resources if I remove all paths before the
> nightly batch updates, and re-add the paths when the batch updates are
> complete? And of course I am referring to using ADAGER!
>
>
>
>
>
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