Re: Mysterious MCH3601 errors at V4R3M0

["Ken Sims at SWS Nevada" <ken.sws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Simon -

>From: "Simon Thompson" <rattus@enterprise.net>
>Subject: Re: Mysterious MCH3601 errors at V4R3M0
>
>>Ken Sims at SWS Nevada wrote :
>>
>>A WRITE operation is not "update", a WRITE operation is "add".  If
>>you are using the file both for UPDATE and WRITE, then you need to
>>open it that way.  This may necessitate having a dummy WRITE
>>operation in the main module:
>>
>>if    'A'='B'
>>write [record name]
>>endif
>
>Is just my imagination but since using RPG400 (V4R2) I cannot use
>N99 99 in the indicator columns to issue a dummy operation.

Two questions:

1. Why would you want to?  Why use indicators?

2. What happens?  Does the operation actually get executed?

Ken


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