230k XML data Files - any problem?

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I have a really static (update 1/month) and very old IDMS Db that I amplanning to dump and generate 230k files of XML each XML file willmap to exactly one employee.Planning on using a servlets/jsp's to format the XML into HTML and/orPDF. The XML will also be used as a data source for a complementaryservlet. I like this solution because of the static nature of the data,as well as the our load expectations of everyone wanting a look thefirst week and trailing off to very low load afterwardsMy only fear is the sheer volume of these employee files each filenamecontains the a primary key (employee number). Not sure of the hardwareyet but probably OS/390 running Websphere 3.02 possibly Unix though.....Number of files a problem?Should I create the HTML dynamically or ahead of time? If I do it aheadI am storing 460k files because the data needs to be available to thecomplementary servlet in XML format......Appreciate any help.......