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Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 Update 1 for Eclipse (UNIX) > General Reference > File Handling Reference > File Handler > Configuration File > Configuration File Options > FASTREAD

FASTREAD

The FASTREAD option specifies whether or not the File Handler performs extra checking to ensure data integrity when reading an indexed file.

Syntax:

FASTREAD = { ON } { OFF }

Parameters:

ON
Do not perform extra checking.
OFF
Perform extra checking to ensure data integrity.

Properties:

Default: ON

Comments:

To increase the efficiency of reads on fixed length, non-compressed indexed files, set FASTREAD to ON.

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