Adding records to the end of a "REUSEDLT" file with deleted records

["Tony Smithurst" <TonyS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There, I think I've said it in the title:

I am trying to apply changes from a journal receiver. I cannot use APYJRNE
or whatever as we have stripped out only the bare essentials and compressed
these for transmission to our disaster recovery machine. The problem which
is occuring very infrequently is that in a file which re-uses deleted
records, I sometimes see that the source system has added a record to the
end of file even though a deleted record was available for re-use. Due to
the infrequency of the problem I can only guess that this is due to the
number of jobs concurrently updating this large master file.

In RPG I can easily tell the target machine to re-use a specific record by
accessing by RRN. Problem comes when I am trying to add to the end of the
file as indicated by the RRN on the journal. The target system now insists
on using the available deleted space if there is any.

eg:

Record 1:    In use
Record 2:    Deleted
Record 3:    In use

Journal says record added to RRN 4.

How can I force the record to be written to this position without specifying
the target file as REUSEDLT(*NO).

We have constructed a "messy" work around which involves filling up the
deleted space, adding the record, and then re-deleting, but a single
instruction to "Add to end of file regardless of deleted records" would
obviously be preferable.

Any help would be appreciated

Tony Smithurst









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