cdb2oa from command line on multi processors?

Stu,

There's no multi-threaded or distributed options for cdb2oa (not really worth the bang for the buck). However, there's nothing to stop you running it for more than one library in parallel, provided you've sorted out any dependencies first.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew, sorry but what do you mean by dependencies?

Here is an example of the command i am running:

 cdb2oa -cdslibpath 5141_cds.lib -lib STU_LIB -log .STU.log -mapundefinedpingroups strong -ignorelocks -oalibpath ./NEW_OA_LIB -abspath -mapviaparams

One issue i can see is that this command currently writes the new lib to my OA cds.lib, so 2 parallel cdb2oa runs may attempt to edit the new cds.lib at the same time. I'll check the manual see what i can do to disable writing to cds.lib (which is not really required anyway as I can do that manually).

Thanks

Stu

Hi Stu,

By dependencies I mean that you ideally want to convert the libraries bottom up. If you're converting a single library, you should be OK. One way to workaround the writing of a cds.lib (I didn't check to see if there's an arg to stop this) is to do the conversion in a separate directory per library, and then combine them afterwards.

Regards,

Andrew.

 Hi Andrew, yes i see what you mean now & yes we have tried to do such a bottom up approach as sensibly as possible  (we have ~ 50 libs in this project).

Thanks for all the advice

Stu