At 01:13 PM 2006-12-11, Paul Mimura wrote:

>Thanks Stan for the diligent follow-up.
>
>I should have posted that Paul Tafel's suggestion worked out.
>
>The suggestion was to restore the VeSoft account without the olddate
>parm.
>
>Now I can't say that I really know why it worked, but it did work!


Well, as you've confirmed that it worked, now I can tell you why:

MPEX 'compiles' its internal command files (in its CMD22 and
EXP22 groups) into more efficient versions before executing them
the first time.

This compilation is re-triggered whenever MPEX determines that a
command file's creation date & time is later than the creation date
and time of the compiled version.  I imagine that you somehow
originally restored the files in the VESOFT account when your system
clock was incorrectly set to some future date.  After correcting your
system clock, every time that MPEX checks, it thinks that each and
every command file needs to be re-compiled, every time you issue any
command.

This will slow things down very noticeably.

Hope this helps,

Paul Taffel

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