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7.1.2 Strong points of HPU
There are the things HPU does to make it stand up to its name. To maximize performance,
HPU uses buffering and synchronization techniques:
Buffering When reading data rows, HPU directly accesses the VSAM clusters
containing the table space.This direct use of VSAM takes maximum
advantage of VSAM’s buffering capability, which lets an entire cylinder
be read with a single I/O.
Synchronization HPU permits the parallel execution of several unloads that are
accessing the same table space; it does this by synchronizing the
unloads. Each row extracted from a table space is offered
successively to each of the unloads executed under HPU control, so
that a single read satisfies ...