Compiled vs Uncompiled Quiz

[Darren Reely]

We normally give our users 3 choices for running reports.  They can run
them immediately from the Quick screen and wait, they can run them as a
batch job, or they can schedule them as a batch job at 5pm.  Most of the
time people choose the back ground batch job so they can get back to
Quick.  A few reports take a considerable long time to run.  Also one
printer choice is to an area the PCs can see as a disk.  We also use the
NOREPORT option on reports, for those rare cases nothing would be printed.

Paul Kemmer mentioned '"Compiled" is somewhat of a misnomer' and that the
compile time is minor.  I agree.  But something about compiling at run time
just bothers me a bit.  Maybe it's those repetive wasted CPU cycles.  Every
other development (non scripting) language I've used has required
compiling.  Still, I can see some advantage to it.

Darren.


"Ravenscroft, Wanda L" wrote:
> 
> We've always run compiled Quiz here.  I generally delete any subfiles and
> subfile dictionaries created by a previous run of the job.  One thing I've
> been doing recently is when the report gets kicked off by the user, I have
> it submit to a batch queue to run.  This releases the users screen and
> allows them to go on and do other things.  They get an e-mail of the report
> when it's done running.  If there was an error during running, they get an
> e-mail of that as well telling them who to call to have the problem
> researched.
> They've definitely appreciated having their screen released to go on and do
> other things because some of their reports can take 10 - 15 minutes.
> 
> Wanda Ravenscroft
> Energizer
> VMS 7.1, PH 7.10.F1
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