RE: How to avoid file status 46 in SQLCBLLE

Maricar,

Here is the COBOL manual's description of file status 46.

"A sequential READ statement was attempted on a file open in the input or
I-O mode and no valid next record had been established because the preceding
START statement was unsuccessful, or the preceding READ statement was
unsuccessful or caused an at end condition."

When you're reading your sequential file, you should get a file status of
'10' when you hit end-of-file. A quick way to get file status 46 is to do
another sequential READ after you've reached end-of-file.

Hope this helps!
Richard Casey

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Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:51 AM
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Subject: How to avoid file status 46 in SQLCBLLE

I declare my file as sequential and open input and it's giving me file
status 46 during read, it does not give me an end of file condition and
just continue looping withou retrieving next record. How do i solve this
problem, pls help.

thanks a lot.
maricar