Lars and Bryan wrote:
>I don't know how SUPRTOOL handles the reading (sequential or keyed).

First of all Suprtool always reads the input KSAM file in sequential
order.
The difficulty with analyzing this is that the progress messages
are only at quarterly intervals. A progress report at every percent may
give us more of a clue as to what is happening and when. I have seen progress
message rise incrementally throughout a given task although I do not think that
this is what is at issue here.

I did try to duplicate this behaviour as I am curious to see what the File
system
is doing, but so far I am unable to, besides I am trying to get some actual work
done on Suprtool this week. :)

Some details that are missing are, the record size and key structure of the
file and what was the file equation that was in effect.  So a listf,5 and a
listeq
would be helpful.

Neil