RE: Going slowly insane, or keyed file continued

In the old s/36 days (migrating to AS/400), we had to create a physical file
for each record format, then create a logical that was keyed across all of
them... IIRC, there was an indicator or something that told you what record
format was current.

Will that help???

dan


-----Original Message-----
From: AAnuszewski@hammer.net [mailto:AAnuszewski@hammer.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:11 AM
To: java400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Going slowly insane, or keyed file continued





If a physical file has been defined as being comprised of 3 fields:

a character field of length 1
a character field of length 10 that designates the key
and a character field of length 117 that designates the rest of the data

Is it possible for me to generate a different record format for this file
and
actually have it work as a keyed file?

The issue is that the 10 character key is actually TWO fields - an 8
character
field and a 2 byte numeric.  I do even care WHAT is stored in the 2
character
numeric field.  I just need to ensure that there is not another record
matching
the first 8 characters.

What I need to do is define the record format to look like

a character field of length 1
a character field of length 8 - designated as key
a numeric field 2 bytes long - don't care if this is designated key or not
various length character, numeric, and packed decimal fields to comprise the
remaining 117 bytes

I can make this work with a sequential file and read the data.  However, I
can
NOT get my program to recognize the key unless I keep it at 10 characters
long,
which is impossible.

Amy


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