RE: File in CL Program

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You have to be VERY careful how you use this.  If you don't get it just
right, it won't work.  It has been almost 20 years since I figured it out
and I don't remember how to do it any more but if it works right away for
you, either IBM improved the documentation a lot or you are lucky.  It took
me more than a week to figure it out.

Richard Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Chris Bipes
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:34 AM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE:File in CL Program


Take a look at OVRDBF.  This can be used to reposition the cursor to the
data base file so you can randomly access a file in CL using the RCVF.  But
you are still limited to read only. 8-(


Christopher K. Bipes    mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
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Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Naughton [mailto:mnaughton@juddwire.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 6:15 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Cc: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re(2): Re(2): File in CL Program


AFAIK, the only thing you can do with "pure" CL is to read
records sequentially -- there is no way to read a specific record by key
or record number (or add, update, or delete records) without going
"beyond" CL as others have described in their postings. . . .

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