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The S/38E Programming guide suggests OUTPUT(*NONE) was used on the S/38. Alludes also to both *MBR and *MBRLIST output to a database file with the respective model file formats [QWHFDMBR of QAFDMBR and QWHFDML of QAFDMBRL], so their MBNRCD & MLNRCD fields probably also existed by the last release of CPF. Although DCLF & RCVF would have been available also, most developers would likely have used RPG to do the reads; probably first per familiarity and second due to the limitation of one file per CLP. Presumably familiarity won over, since if a spool could be read by the RPG [after CPYSPLF], it could be read by a CLP just as well.

Regards, Chuck

Evan Harris wrote:
My recollection is that on the system/38 the number of records
was available in DSPFD but that was about it. We wrote an RPG
that we got out of News 34/38 (as it was called at the time) to
get the number of records in a nicer format but I don't remember
why we did it or how (I think the INFDS or equivalent).

I can't specifically remember if you could do a DSPFD to an
outfile but somehow I think not; you had to do a print screen I
think, hence the requirement for an RPG program.

Man, I loved that box, it had tons of personality - made you do
real computer thing and had flashing lights to boot.


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