RE: Subfile processing with duplicate keys

On Wednesday, May 13, 1998 8:22 PM, Tim-Bar [SMTP:timbar@blazenet.net] 
wrote:
> We have a multiformat logical file that has duplicate keys that needs to
> be updated in a subfile program. You select the record you want to
> update and it is displayed on the screen. Because of the duplicate keys,
> you don't get the record you want. You can't use relative record number
> with a multiformat logial file. Anybody got any ideas?

Darlene,
  Yuck.
The implicit assumption here is that having duplicate keys is acceptable 
for the rest of the application, and that adding a sequence number or 
timestamp to make unique keys is out.  Given that, here's one sadly 
torturous way to go where you're headed:
Use the file information data structure to get the record format name from 
the multi-format logical.  Store it in your selection subfile as a hidden 
field.  Also store any "identifying" fields from the input record as 
hidden fields.  When the user selects the record, use the hidden record 
format name to SETLL/READE against the underlying physical (using your 
favourite looping construct<g>) and compare the hidden subfile records to 
the database records until you get a match.  Ugly.
Good luck!

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net

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