Re: Documentation about QC2LE

On 23-Mar-2012 00:07 , Mike Bardin wrote:

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:26:18 -0400
Vinay Gavankar <vinaygav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<<SNIP>> _RLocate to get the RRN of a record based on a key from a
keyed logical file.

I wanted to get the total number of records in that file which have
Key equal to a particular value. <<SNIP>>

/*
variables: filePointer, keyValue,keyLength,recordCount
*/

recordCount=0;
_Rlocate(filePointer,NULL,0,__START);
while
((_Rlocate(filePointer,&keyValue,keyLength,__KEY_EQ))->num_bytes)
recordCount++;

Shouldn't that be __KEY_EQ first, then looping on __KEY_NEXTEQ [with the keyValue being ignored] to effect the increment of the recordCount beyond the first [if a __KEY_EQ was found]? Would not the looping using the __KEY_EQ request, loop indefinitely finding the same [the first] record with the specified key value; or at least loop until all the rows with the specified key value have since been deleted? The doc suggest that the "__KEY_EQ Positions to the first record with the specified key" from which I infer the same row would be read repeatedly, without having changed the keyValue [or keyLength].?

_i* ILE C/C++ Run-Time Library Functions *i_
_i _Rlocate() -- Position a Record i_
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.etools.iseries.langref.doc/rzan5mst217.htm
"...
__KEY_NEXTEQ
Positions to the next record that has a key equal to the key value with a length of klen_rrn, at the current position. The key parameter is ignored.
...
"

Also, what value would there be, in first obtaining a position of *START; i.e. seems unnecessary?

Regards, Chuck