RE: file access problem.....

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's right.  If you need to distinguish among records with "identical"
keys, you need to plan for it in the design of the file or in program logic.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtisda@aol.com [mailto:Curtisda@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:19 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: file access problem.....
> 
> 
> Will someone please confirm or discredit my thinking about 
> ....adding or accessing a file with non-unique key
> 
> If I add two records with the same key..... because the key 
> is not specified, it will allow this..
> 
> When I go to access that key with a chain... there is not 
> guarentee that I will get the first record added.. it is 
> random which record I will get.. because of the way the 
> AS/400 stores data.....
> 
> Will someone weigh in on this.....
> 
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