Re: Reading Files

Thanks Joel.

Justin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Fritz" <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:07 AM
Subject: RE: Reading Files


> Sounds like it's working the way file I/O works.  While local (non static)
> variables in the procedure get initialized with each call, the state of
the
> file cursor will persist from call to call unless you do something like
> close the file or explicitly reposition the file cursor.  You might want
to
> look at the way you're accumulating the totals and see if you can reduce
the
> amount of I/O.  A single SETLL should have a trivial effect on performance
> in an interactive program.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justin Houchin [mailto:jhouchin9@charter.net]
> > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:50 AM
> > To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Reading Files
> >
> >
> > Let me restate my questions with a little more detail. I have
> > one program
> > that will display a list of inventory items and there quantities. To
> > calculate the inventory quantities I have created a procedure
> > that I call to
> > calculate the quantities and then return a value. The problem
> > is that when
> > the procedure reads through all of the individual items calculating
> > quantities it will reach the EOF and return the vaule back to the main
> > program. OK, the value comes back correctly for the first
> > item. But now it
> > starts the do loop back again calling the procedure again to calculate
> > another quantity for a different item, the procedure thinks that the
> > inventory physical file is still at the EOF position,
> > therefore not reading
> > it and not returning a value. I corrected the problem by
> > inserting SETLL
> > before the read in the procedure. Now the program works but
> > it is Slow and I
> > think it is because of the SETLL. Is there a way that I can
> > release the EOF.
> >
> > Justin Houchin
> > Programmer
> > Reliatek, Inc
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Mike.Collins@syan.co.uk>
> > To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: Reading Files
> >
> >
> > >
> > > That depends on whether you share the open data path when
> > you open the
> > file
> > > (the SHARE on either the CRTPF/LF or OVRDBF commands). If a
> > file is opened
> > > with SHARE(*YES) then if program A has read say the first
> > record in the
> > > file, if you then call program B and read the same file it
> > will read the
> > > SECOND record. Specifying SHARE(*YES) can be more
> > efficient, but you need
> > > to design your system so as to allow for the previous
> > scenario. If ni your
> > > case the file is opened SHARE(*NO) then when you issue your
> > first read,
> > yes
> > > it will read the first record in the file, in terms of
> > either the key or
> > > the RRN, depending on how the file is defined in the RPG.
> > >
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