From: John E. Malmberg [wb8tyw@qsl.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:27 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Is there an OpenVMS success story about this?

Alan Greig <agreig@my-deja.company> wrote:

> "Bill Todd" <billtodd@foo.mv.company> wrote:
> > If they're creating a new file for each mail message received,
> > then the problem is not in RMS but rather in the synchronous
> > nature of ODS-2 directory and file meta-data handling.
>
> Setting XQPCTL2 = 1 (improved concurrency) makes a considerable
> difference in recent releases of VMS.

When the parameter was introduced as an add-on for OpenVMS 5.5-2, the
release notes stated that programs had to be specially written to take
advantage of it.

Has that changed?  Do the underlying language run-time libraries now use it?

-John
wb8tyw@qsl.network