Re: file access problem..... -- MIDRANGE-L

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Scott,

At 8/2/00 02:22 PM -0500, you wrote:

You're right that you can add more than one record with the same key
because it's non-unique.
But, using CHAIN to access your file, you will always get the first record
added because it's relative record number is lower - records in a keyed
physical file are "sorted" by the relative record number within each key value.

But if you reuse deleted records, then I imagine this may not be the case?

This is true. The only way IBM will guarantee the sequence in this case is if you specify *FIFO or *LIFO (is there another attribute?), even though you will *usually* get *FIFO results w/o specifying it.

-mark

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