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This is a new one to me, so I thought I'd share. Sometimes I do a full subfile load, and usually I condition the loop on EOF on the file being read. Not to go into a ton of detail, but this time I conditioned on generic %EOF and I was surprised to find my loop ending after filling one page and one record of my subfile.
Well, here's what happened: My subfile was defined with SFLPAG of 16 and SFLSIZ of 17 (the traditional method of defining an expanding subfile). Unbeknownst to me, writing record 17 to that subfile turns on the EOF setting, which is returned by the generic %EOF BIF!
So I changed my loop to end when RRN = 9999 and the problem went away. But it was interesting enough that I thought I'd share.
Joe
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