RE: CHAIN to a DS

You know, I probably didn't make myself clear.  I had this idea on my way
into work, and I was excited, and probably blathering...

 

What I want to do is this:

 

When you CHAIN to a file, the found record is placed, field by field, in the
input buffer (the fields contained in the record format).  

 

Example, if you have a file 

 

R Trans

   Tracro  3A

   Trfam# 9P 0

K Tracro 3A

 

And you have this file specified as an update file, you then have the
following fields available to your module

Tracro

Trfam#

 

When you do a CHAIN to the TRANS format/file, and a record is found, the two
fields above now contain the values from the record found by the CHAIN.
_This_ is the action I am trying to avoid.  I thought if you specify a DS on
the CHAIN operation, that the DS would be updated, but the two fields above
would not be.  

 

Tony Carolla

MedAmerica Billing Services, Inc.