Re: Order of writen records.

Greetings;

Is the file configured to reuse deleted records?  If so, the new records
could appear anywhere in the file.

Just a thought.

Jim

At 03:43 PM 5/6/2002 +0200, you wrote:
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>Velazar.
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>You do not say if your physical file has a key or not, and you do not say
>how you browse your file(DFU/QUERY/others).
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>My experience is like this:  Normally, if you write to a file, the records
>will be added on by one to the end of the physical file(if it doesn't have
>a key).  You  can write via a logical file, but still the records will be
>found at the end of the non-keyed physical file(using DFU).  If your
>physical file has a key,  or you browse a logical file, the records will
>be found in key-sequence, of course.
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>Mvh.
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>Geir Kildal
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>Hi every one.
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>I need some help (any would be thank) to fix a problem I have when writing
>into a file from 2 diferent subprograms calles from the same main program
>on the same execution.
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>I have a main program (A) calling 2 programs (B and C). They are all cobol
>programs and A is called fron a main CL program. There is a file (F) 800
>positions long that would recive information from programs B and C.
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>The sistem works this way:
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>A starts and begin the cicle:
>- A calls B. B opens file F and writes 2 records and goes back.
>- A calls C. C opens file F,  writes 8 records to file F and goes back.
>- A calls B again and B writes 2 new records to file F and goes back.
>the cicle terminates and A finishes.
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>File F is never closed but at the end when probrams B and C are called and
>should never be, cause there could be 1000's of cicles like this in a
>single execution.
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>When the file is browsed I find the 'C' records first and all the 'B'
>records together at the end.
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>I think the records order has somthing to do with the buffer size and the
>usage of a diferent path to acces F for each program B and C.
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>Is there any way to force the order of the records as they were writen?
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>Virgilio Eleazar Rodríguez Domínguez
>Tel: 963 87 59 00 ext. 6156
>Aseval, S.A.
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