RE: CL file pointer techniques?

Dan, wow, that is a nice find.  Fiona, waiting to hear if this actually
works.  I do a lot of programming where I need to do exactly this, and have
always created 2 programs and moved on.  I have not thought about this in
years.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:38 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: CL file pointer techniques?


Fiona,

I was fairly certain there was a way to delay EOF from taking effect.  In
essence, once EOF is hit, wait nnn seconds for the potential for more
records to be added to the file.  If nnn seconds pass without any new
records added to the file, EOF is processed.

I looked at CRTPF.  Specifically the WAITFILE & WAITRCD parameters.  They
didn't look right.

Then I looked at OVRDBF and found the EOFDLY parameter.  A maximum of 99999
seconds (over 27 hours!) is allowed.  Have you tried this one?

hth,
db