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Any reason you can't use a logical over the same input file as a third
output only file? That way you would not have to change the input
primary at all.


Sharon Wintermute

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Nesiba
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:05 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Update primary filre

We have an old, large program (that we don't want to rewrite) which
processes a primary file and a secondary file using L1 M1 processing.
Both files are currently input only, and externally defined. At L1
total time an answer is calculated that we want to write back into the
primary file. When we change the primary to update capable, the L1
answer gets written into the subsequent record. We have tried both
UPDATE and EXCEPT, and get the same result: data updates the wrong
(subsequent) record. What's the best (or the easiest way) to update the

correct primary file record? Thanks!


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