Re: WRITE does not work on Rec fmt name.

Mohammad,

In a message dated 1/4/99 3:04:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mohammadakhan@yahoo.com writes:

>  hi,
>  
>  i was coding an example out of 
>  judy yaeger's rpg/400
>  book. i was coding in ILE though.
>  anyway i only have one error it is:
>  
>  File in factor 2 does not have allowed file 
>  type for WRITE operation; specification is
>  ignored.
>  
>  now this write operation is on a record 
>  format name in a pf and yaeger says that
>  is what the write is used for. so why the
>  error? i mean i used the update op-code on
>  this same record format name without any
>  problm. so what gives?
>  
>  if it helps here's the exact line of error:
>  
>  WRITE SECTIONSR
>  
>  sectionsr being the record format name
>  ofcourse..
>  
>  i'd very much appreciate any help.
>  thanks and happy new year!

I was just thinking about you the other day, as I reflected on the new year,
and wondered what you were up to.  Good to hear from you!  I should have
offered for you to write me directly on any questions you might have, but
didn't do it.  I'm not really sure about ILE, but classic RPG requires that
the file be specified as Output, with an Add opcode out near the end of the F-
Spec...

HTH,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

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