Re: Reusing deleted records

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Al,

At 08:29 PM 9/18/98 -0400, you wrote:

>Note than when the file is opened, the system develops a "deleted record
>map".  This is an internal table of available deleted records to be re-used
>by RR number.  If another application subsequently deleted a record, the
>first application is not aware of the newly deleted record.

 I haven't inventigated this, but your explanation doesn't sound right to
me.  Figuring out where a new record should go is data management's job,
not the RPG program's.  So the record should be able to end up in a newly
available space.

 -mark

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