RE: OCL

Jim,

Unless something has changed, the RPG compiler does require the starting
position, but completely ignores it. It is not used when accessing the
database. At least that's what we were told in 1981 in reference to this
new language call RPGIII.

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Jim Langston
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 2:19 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: OCL
>
> Yeah, your RPG II program has to define the key length in the
> F specs.  It also has to specify the start position in the
> record of the key.  It's probably the start postion that's
> throwing you for a loop.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com
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> Behalf Of Kmh0421@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:57 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: OCL
>
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> Hi again...
> Does anyone know OCL?
> Do I have to somehow define the length of the key to a logical in the
OCL?
> I am almost finished with all of these programs, about 4 left.... then
back
> to the future!
> Thanks....Again!
> Kathie
>
>
> I did a BLDINDEX and created a logical over my physical, keyed by the
last
> 13
> bytes of my flat file, positions 52 to 64. (U2 is the logical) My OCL
now
> looks like this:
>  *************** Beginning of data ***************************
>  // LOCAL OFFSET-102,DATA-'?WS?'
>  // OVRDBF FILE(IC935U) TOFILE(KMHFILES/IC935U)
>  // OVRDBF FILE(IC935U2) TOFILE(KMHFILES/IC935U2)
>  // OVRDBF FILE(DE400A) TOFILE(KMHFILES/DE400A)
>  // OVRDBF FILE(IC052A) TOFILE(KMHFILES/IC052A)
>  // OVRDBF FILE(IC040A) TOFILE(KMHFILES/IC040A)
>  // LOAD IC935U
>  // FILE NAME-IC935U,DISP-SHR,RECORDS-500,EXTEND-10
>  // FILE NAME-IC935U2,DISP-SHR,RECORDS-500,EXTEND-10
>  // FILE NAME-DE400A,DISP-SHR
>  // FILE NAME-IC052A,DISP-SHR
>  // FILE NAME-IC040A,DISP-SHR
>  // RUN
> When I call it... I get an error:
>
>  SYS2206 Options (  23)
>  IC935U2. This file accessed with wrong key length.
>
>  Cause . . . . . :   In referencing the file identified in the
message, the
>    program running is using the wrong key length value.  If you are
running
>    a procedure, you incorrectly entered a procedure name or parameter.
>  Recovery  . . . :   Enter option 2 or 3 and give the programmer the
message
>    ID (SYS2206) and the file name identified in the message.
>  Possible choices for replying to message . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. :
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