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  3. March 2009

Re: Keyed record-level access in CL

OVRDBF has various positioning parameters - not for the faint of heart, necessarily, especially if you have a packed field in the mix.

From the help text -

For example, POSITION(*KEY 1 FMT2 X'123F') specifies that:

1. The system searches for a record from the record format FMT2.

2. A single key field is used in the search (even though the key
value may have more key fields).

3. The record contains the hexadecimal value 123F (the hexadecimal
equivalent of packed decimal value 123.0). You get this record
when it is found.

Vern

Adam Glauser wrote:
I have this feeling that I read about a way to do the equivalent of RPG's SETLL (which the positions to a record by key or RRN) with CL commands.

I can't remember anything other than that, and my searching by topic and the keyword 'file' in the Infocenter isn't helping (surprise!).

Is there such a method, or am I just haverin'?

TIA,
Adam

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