How to use'named pipe'?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 11:00 pm

Well, because that's the way a Named Pipe works as far as I know. Only one process can write to it at a time and only one process can read from it at a time. [:(]

-craig

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:42 am

Job jobw can write the same information into as many named pipes as you need (they will need different names in the O/S of course). Each of the other jobs can read from its dedicated named pipe.

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chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 8:22 am

Sorry, should have added that little bit of advise. [:I]

-craig

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 10:36 pm

Well, not *literally* the same information, but from the same source. From what I understand of PE (we don't have it) you would assign a portion of the records to be written to each pipe - 10 pipes, each would write 1/10 of the records to their pipe, for example. Then run the jobs in parallel.

I think that the PE job designer canvas thingy automates alot of this for you.

-craig

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 4:19 am

You can do most of this with 5.2; jobs can be run in parallel in a schedule or from a job control routine. In 6.0 you can get this effect without having to write as much (any?) code. However, it is definitely possible in 5.2.