Re: Problem in OPNQRYF

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vini Kolathur wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> James,
>     The same thing would not happen if i process the file in me RPG because of
> the simple reason that i would have closed the file in my RPG. You can try it
> out by putting the CPYFRMQRYF after calling the RPG.
>          Many people have suggested putting a *LOVAL SETLL in the RPG. This
> would only crash the program because the *LOVAL SETLL will try to position it 
>to
> the first record. This necessarily could not be the first record in the
> selection criterion.
>         I feel that IBM should fix up the CPYFRMQRYF to reposition the file
> pointer to the first record after it has done it's piece of work.
> 

That would break existing programs.  What is so hard about doing a
POSDBF if you want to restart at the beginning of the file after
processing it?  Also what if I wanted to copy the first 100 records to
one file and the next to another ?  Right now I can do this.

John Hall
Home Sales Co.
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