RE: R: COBOL WRITE after OPEN EXTEND results in CLEAR-AFTER-WRITE

["Weatherly, Howard (Contractor) (DLIS)" <Howard.Weatherly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Folks,

COBOL has not changed this in 30 years, the only time the actual write
buffer is preserved after a write is when the record is also defined as
SAME-RECORD-ONLY or the WRITE statement fails. The only way to preserve the
contents if you have crafted a program that requires it is to work in
working-storage and do a WRITE FD-01-Record from WS-01-Record.

Having said that it is possible that the buffer may be usable after the
write i.e. preserved, but there are no guarantees on that.

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From: geir.kildal@entragroup.com [mailto:geir.kildal@entragroup.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:04 AM
To: cobol400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: R: COBOL WRITE after OPEN EXTEND results in
CLEAR-AFTER-WRITE


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Dennis.

I have looked up this in an old COBOL/400 reference(from the age of
Sauron), SC09-1240-00 page 196 - WRITE:  "After successful execution of
the WRITE or REWRITE statement, the current record may no longer be
available in  record-name, but is still available in identifier(WS-REC, my
comment)"


Mvh.

Geir


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