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  • Subject: RE: Interesting subfile "feature"
  • From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:00:14 -0400

Joe P wrote:
>You'll find that the output-only fields actually show up in
>the input buffer.  Which means that, when you do a 
>CHAIN or a READC on a subfile, the output fields get 
>updated with the contents of the record you just read.

Joe, It's been this way since the beginning.  How else can (say) RPG
retrieve an output-only subfile record on a CHAIN?

By the bye, the documentation for this behaviour can be found in the
Information Centre, Printers and Devices, Application Display Programming.
Direct link
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/books/c4157150.pdf.
See page 4-9 (actual page 141) for V5R1.  One thin paragraph "All named
fields in a subfile record, including fields that are not input-capable, are
returned to the program."

Buck 
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