Re: Subject: Retrieving Relative Record Number

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: 08 Nov 1999 11:23:44 -0600
>From: "Scott Klement" <infosys@klements.com>
>
>If you use this approach, make sure that your RPG program is
>not performing "blocking" on the file.  Blocking will cause
>the RRN's in the INFDS to be updated only once per block read,
?>instead of on every record.

This is true for RPG/400 but not for ILE RPG.  ILE RPG updates
the RRN on every I/O, blocked or not.  (#8 in the I/O differences
section in the ILE RPG Programmer's Guide.)

Barbara Morris


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