Re: a strange RPG program

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

The method you've outlined works just fine.  However, all it is doing is 
dynamically establishing sort/select spes.  Replace the whole thing with an 
OPNQRYF statement.


In <01BE7537.61BA4140.rdubson@kcata.org>, on 03/23/99 
   at 02:13 PM, Ron Dubson <rdubson@kcata.org> said:

>I have inherited an RPG38 program whose source code is lost (we do not
>have  an uncompiler!) but which does the following:

>Based on entry parms, it updates a member of a source physical file, 
>apparently without calls to any CL programs. The source physical file 
>contains exactly one member which is the source specification for the 
>FMTDTA command (sort utility). The purpose is to enable dynamic selection
> and sorting of a particular database file.

>How can an RPG program do this? I thought they could update only database
> files. Could it be using some API?

>Ronald Dubson
>Senior Programmer
>Kansas City Area Transportation Authority
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