RE: Duplicate Field in Logical File

[Khouw Thiam Hok <AHOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fran,

I tried it with my own file, and put the date as first key and then defined it again as last key in descending order. The view of the logical file is ignored the last one (date in descending order) that I defined as key, in other words you may take out the line no 28,it's effect nothing.  And for you, IBM , how do you explain this?

-----Original Message-----
From: Fran Denoncourt [mailto:fran_denoncourt@mindspring.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 7:58 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Duplicate Field in Logical File

Am I imaging things or just getting old??? I don't remember seeing a duplicate field in a logical view but this has one field TRTRDT duplicated....and it compiles fine. DSPFD shows both as keys. How would records get sorted??

0018.00      *****************************************************************
0019.00      A*
0020.00      A          R WWCCCC                  TEXT('Transaction History')
0021.00      A**
0022.00      A                                      PFILE(WWCCB)
0023.00      A          K TRTRDT
0024.00      A          K TRWHS
0025.00      A          K TRAISL
0026.00      A          K TRBAY
0027.00      A          K TRLEVL
0028.00 /301 A          K TRTRDT                    DESCEND
0029.00 /301 A          K TRTRTM                    DESCEND
        ****************** End of data ****************************************
Thanks,
Fran Denoncourt