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Hi James -
To those Cycle-haters who regard the whole "control level" business as a total waste of time, I agree. But note that the program in question is still a Cycle program, and there's no reason in the world to throw out The Cycle just because trying to make control level breaks do what you want them to do is harder than coding your own logic.
Personally, even though I started out programming on a S/32 back when about everything was cycle-based, now that we have full procedural files (which didn't exist on the S/32 and I'm pretty sure not on the S/34 either) I see no point in using the cycle unless I'm going to be using some specific cycle-based functionality.
Since many of my programs with level breaks require logic far beyond the simple L0/L1/.../L9/LR capability, I don't use the cycle at all for its level break capabilities.
The only cycle-based programs I've written in a long time are ones that use matching record logic (to load a file with net changes between a file and a snapshot of the file at a previous point in time, to send the changes to an SAP/R3 system for processing).
For the specific conversion program that you described, personally I would not have given any serious consideration to trying to do it with the cycle and cycle-based level breaks.
Ken http://www.kensims.net/ Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer or anyone in their right mind.
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