RE: READC - OS400 issues?

["Rick Rayburn" <the400man@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

BINGO!

This does work...not my cup of tea to chain, then place read at bottom of 
loop but it does work...bottom line. Thank you much.


> From: "Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: READC - OS400 issues?
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:27:59 -0500
>
>
> Dave,
>
> Yes, it surely works.
>
> You can set the rrn to pretty much any number, and readc and it will
> re-position the cursor - as long as every time you readc, you update it
> with sflnxtchg in effect.  If you only do the readc without update, you
> won't get any reads on the second pass.
>
> Rick
>
> --------original message-------
> No kidding - does that really work?  When I need to read a subfile twice in
> succession, I usually do the READC for the first loop and then a CHAIN for
> the second, incrementing the subfile pointer until I run out of records.
> If
> your method works, that would be a much better way.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Tuohy [mailto:tuohyp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 12:45 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: READC - OS400 issues?
>
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> Before the second read of the subfile, set the RRN field for the subfile
> (as
> declared on the SFILE on the F spec) to 1 - it is the eqivalent of SETLL.
>
> HTH
>
>
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