Re: Maximum Key Fields

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

At 03:01 PM 2/19/99 -0500, you wrote:

>We have an existing application that reads this logical.  I want to run this
>same application on a subset of records instead of the full file (several
>million records).  

>I get the following error message:

>               CPF5123 - 8 key fields not valid.  The number of key fields
>specified for member XXX file XXX in library QTEMP is greater than 7, which
>is the maximum allowed.
>
>What is this 8 key field limitation?  Any suggestions on how to resolve my
>problem?

 I'd like to suggest you use FMTDTA instead of three passes and an index
build.  It's probably a lot faster!

 -mark

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