Re: Use of 2 logical files -- RPG400-L

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"R. O." wrote:
> 
> I have a program that is written in RPGIII(RPG/400) that needs to use two
> logical files that are based on the same physical file record format.  I
> know that you can use RENAME in RPGIV, but this needs to be done in RPGIII.
> Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?  Thanks!

You can do RENAME in RPGIII also.

     FFILENAMEUF  E           K        DISK
     F            RECORDF                           KRENAMENEWFMT

Where file FILENAME has record format RECORDF which is renamed to
NEWFMT.

HTH
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