RE: Records written to a file don't show up immediately

Is it an Update file or Output-only file?  If it's Output-only and the file
is not uniquely keyed, then they're likely sitting in a buffer.  If you need
to see the record as soon as it's written, you can override the file so that
records don't get buffered.

hth,
db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Malchow, Grizzly
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 8:59 AM
>
> We have an interactive program that writes records to a file. The file
> isn't overridden, nor is it a user opened file. Currently only one
> program uses the file and only one workstation is running that program.
> The problem we're having is once the program writes the records to the
> file there they are not visible for quite a while. For instance the
> program wrote several records to the file at 5:50 AM, but we couldn't
> see the records until after 7:30 AM. I've never seen this before with an
> interactive program. The program isn't running in the default activation
> group could that be the cause of the problem? Any ideas would help.
> Thanks.