- Specifying Block Size for Temporary Files

For Unix environments, use the configuration variable BLOCKSIZE to specify the block size to use for temporary files. You must specify it in the configuration file under the database PROIVTEMP in the ENVIRONMENT section.

For example:

[ENVIRONMENT]
[DATABASE - PROIVTEMP]
BLOCKSIZE=8

Where 8 is the block size specified in bytes.

The larger the number, the more records can be written to the file. The smaller the number, the faster the system will run. The maximum value that can be used is for BLOCKSIZE is 3000.

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