Re: PF

Thank you Vern and Peter, Peter's idea  is fantastic!

Murali.
--- Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Peter et al.
> 
> Probably not an issue in the short term, but I like
> to use TYPE(*MBRLIST) 
> for higher-level stuff like create date. The record
> length is just over 200 
> bytes, compared to over 800 for TYPE(*MBR). So
> there's a 
> performance  advantage, albeit probably irrelevant
> unless the list of files 
> and members is huge.
> 
> Vern
> 
> At 07:51 AM 4/12/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >I think that what you can do is prepare a CL that
> runs every day on a
> >predetermined schedule and remove the desired
> member from there.  For
> >example, you can:
> >
> >1) Create a work file like:
> >DSPFD FILE(MyFile) TYPE(*MBR) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE)
> FILEATR(*PF)
> >OUTFILE(QTEMP/MyFileFD) OUTMBR(QFIRST)
> >
> >2) You can use the combination of the three fields
> :MBCCEN, MBCDAT and /
> >or MBCTIM to determine which member should go.
> >
> >3) RMVM FILE(QTEMP/MyFileFD) MBR(MemberToDelete)
> >
> >Hope this can help...
> >Peter Vidal
> >PALL Aeropower Corporation
> >SR Programmer Analyst
> >5775 Rio Vista Drive
> >Clearwater, FL 33760-3137
> >(727)539-8448
> >www.pall.com
> 
> 
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