Re: SEARCH ALL p[roblem -- COBOL400-L

In the example below I would add a "DEPENDING ON PRICE-TABLE-LIMIT" to
the description of prices (the OCCURS might have to be 0 TO 1500)
where PRICE-TABLE-LIMIT is defined as S9(4) COMPUTATIONAL (or BINARY
if that works better on the AS400/i series for subscripts) and use
PRICE-TABLE-LIMIT as the subscript to load the prices.  This way the
SEARCH ALL will only look at the number of entries actually loaded
rather than all 1500 entries possible.  It is still a good idea to
initialize the table to HIGH-VALUES but it shouldn't be necessary. The
use of a limit should speed the search in most cases and if the table
doesn't have to be initialize the modest amount of time to initialize
is saved.  
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:01:30 -0600, you wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Casey
>Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 8:17 PM
>To: COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400
>Subject: RE: [COBOL400-L] SEARCH all problems
>
>Daniel,
>
>Do a
>
>       MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO PRICE-TABLE
>
>before you load your inventory data in.
>
>SEARCH ALL requires the contents of the table (the ENTIRE contents!) to be
>in ascending order, otherwise "the results of any SEARCH ALL statement will
>be unpredictable." (quote from manual!).
>
>Unless you specifically initialize the table, the unused entries contain
>spaces (hex 40) which are less than numbers (hex F0-F9). That makes the
>table out of order, and confuses the SEARCH ALL.
>
>Hope this helps!
>Richard
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel Mielke
>Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 5:42 PM
>To: 'COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400'
>Subject: [COBOL400-L] SEARCH all problems
>
>
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>Why can't I get my "search all" to work?  This is driving me nuts!
>
>
>
>01  PRICE-TABLE.
>
>    05 prices occurs 1500 times
>
>       ascending key is inv-code
>
>       indexed by ws-price-rec.
>
>       10 inv-code          pic x(5).
>
>       10 unit-price        pic 9(7)v9(4).
>
>
>
>
>
>move "005  " to hold-me.
>
>SEARCH all prices
>
>   at end
>
>      display hold-me " not found"
>
>   when inv-code (ws-price-rec) = hold-me
>
>        move unit-price of PRICES (ws-price-rec)
>
>          to current-unit-price
>
>        move "N" to eor-UNIT-PRICE.
>
>
>
>display
>
>        " price$"
>
>        current-unit-price.
>
>PRICES                         06ED90  CHAR(16)      DIMENSION(1500)
>                               06ED90    (1)         '0001 00000106538'
>                               06EDA0    (2)         '0002 00000109909'
>                               06EDB0    (3)         '0003 00000108581'
>                               06EDC0    (4)         '0004 00000121800'
>                               06EDD0    (5)         '0005 00000113959'
>                               06EDE0    (6)         '0006 00000135300'
>                               06EDF0    (7)         '0007 00000091994'
>                               06EE00    (8)         '0008 00000106900'
>                               06EE10    (9)         '001  00000052100'
>                               06EE20    (10)        '002  00000049490'
>                               06EE30    (11)        '003  00000042310'
>                               06EE40    (12)        '004  00000041450'
>                               06EE50    (13)        '005  00000026410'
>                               06EE60    (14)        '006  00000025010'
>                               06EE70    (15)        '007  00000028200'
>
>Daniel Mielke
>
>Business Systems Analyst