re: processing a file -Reply -Reply -Reply

Paul wrote,

You can do the same thing with a Physical File... there's a 'waitfile'
parameter.  You set this parm (I -think- that's its name) and let an RPG
program (or 2 or 3) read from the file.  When the file has no more records,
the system does not cause an error, it just waits.  Forever.  Or until
another record arrives.

When you wan to kill the task, drop a special record in the file (we use an
*) to signal the program to shut itself down.

Now you're only limited by the max size for a PF.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com

Now you just slowed the whole process back down to a crawl....you
also have to deal with writing to a file, deleting what you just read and
making sure the processing programs don't read the same records...no
way

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