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Good evening: declare two files in the same program and you 'll be able to indipendently access them.
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Da: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Per conto di Nancy Barney
Inviato: mercoledì 4 giugno 2008 16.32
A: cobol400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Oggetto: [COBOL400-L] How to do sequential and random reads concurrently

I have an indexed file that I am reading sequentially using a repeating, non-unique alternate key, using start and read next. Access is dynamic.


As I am reading through this file sequentially, I also have to randomly retrieve records from the same file using the primary key. (For each record that I retrieve sequentially, I have to get another record
randomly.)

I can't do a start after the random read to reset the record pointers for the sequential read, because I am using a non-unique alternate key to start the sequential read.

How do I do this without messing up the record pointers? When I tested this, I don't get all the records I should get from the sequential read, as if the random read 'resets' the record pointers.

How do I get around this? Thanks in advance for your help!

Nancy Barney
Dakota Drug, Inc



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