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  3. August 2005

RE: AW: How to properly use %EOF() bif?

What frustrates me with %EOF(myfilename) is that we (pre-V5R3) had to
read/chain to record formats, open file names, and do %EOF(filename). So a
CHAIN RCDNAM would be followed by %EOF(FILENAME) not obvious unless the
names were, by convention, similar.
It's only the UPDATE opcode (and at one time the WRITE opcode) that requires the record format name. CHAIN has never required it.
However, I agree... you should be able to use a filename for ALL of the opcodes if there's only one record format in the file. It should only complain when there's more than one record format, and therefore you are being ambiguous.

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