Re: SUBFILE FOR NON DISPLAY PROGRAMMING.... -- RPG400-L

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I've been giving some thought to the use of a subfile instead of a MODS and 
could
only think of one benefit:

If any of the fields are already used in a different data structure you have to
change the names of the fields and populate your MODS with MOVE's.
Reading/writing to a record does this for you.

With that consideration, IMO, the closest subfile simulation would be through a
disk file.  It would also work in a batch program.

You would WRITE to add a record, CHAIN by record number, can use UPDAT, could
call a CLRPFM to simulate SFLCLR, initialize the record and perform a looping
write to simulate SFLINZ.

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