Re: finding the right place in a RRN file

Jim 

You missed my point.   I was being facetious.   The previous person was talking
about a binary search algorithm and/or RRN processing.   (which I was
questioning the effort required to maintain/enhance)  .  

Even though I started out in RPG II on a S/34 and have seen more ADDROUT sorts
than I care to remember , . ( I even worked a year writing RPG 1&1/2 on a
SYS/370 135 using independent cylinder overflows, UPSI switches, double
buffering input & output files, and even CORE STORAGE INDEX - {You remember that
charlie?}.  etc. etc. etc.) That was many many many years ago.

I have been writing RPGIV for over 3 years,  8 hours a day. So I have seen a
little ILE/RPG.   Also for the record;
  I wrote a White Paper for IBM on Visual RPG( I was there when it was still a
neat idea in George F's  mind),  I have been on numerous RPG future commitees
for IBM Toronto (and Rochester)
And when it comes to subject of maintainable code,   you won't   find a bigger
bigot. ( I've done a 2 hour session at about 6 COMMONs in a row on that subject
with 200-300 people in the room.)
I even have filled in on sessions for  Charlie, 
and also the bad boy of RPG, the rebel without a where clause  -  the  Bob-ster.

Respectfully 
John P. Carr   CDP
EdgeTech Inc. 
74711.77@compuserve.com

>>
>John Carr wrote:
>> 
>> I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the programers who will see or who
>> will be asked to maintain/enhance the File/Program/Algorithm
>> would rather maintain a RPGII Level Breaking Matching record program.
>>   But I might be wrong.
>> 
>> John Carr
>> 

<<<- --   Jim Wrote  --->

>John
>90% of the programmers i know want nothing to do with RPG II, although
>you do get some satisfaction out of replacing them with something else,
>almost anything else... :) 
>sorry
<snip>

>         EXSR CLEAR
>         EXSR FILLSF
>         EXFMT subfile control format

>*IN03    DOWEQ  *OFF
  <snip>
>this is just a quick and dirty example of some RPG III
>personally i've been doing this type of stuff for so long now that i'm 
>really anxious to move on to IV, VisualAge...etc

>I'm currently out there looking, sounds exciting.
>Anyway, according to sources, CISC is dead, RPG II can't be long for
>this world either...
>time to get on with the black box! :)

>Good Luck!
Jim
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    Original Post  by Ray

>>I'm thinking there's gotta be an easy way to do this. 
>>I have a sequential file, sorted into alphabetical order on a field called 
>>"LastName".  I want to process it as a subfile by Relative Record Number.
>>But a user needs to be able  set the file at a particular "LastName", 
>>based on a keyed-in field called "GetName".  
>>Is there an easy way to do that?
>>Thanks.
     

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