RE: Position To in a display file pgm using embedded sql

What do you mean?

Phil

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> But wouldn't you use the dynamic sort if you did it that way?
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> Thanks,
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> Mark
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> Mark Walter
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>                     10/28/01 12:52 PM
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> Hi Phil,
>
> Oops, I misunderstood the question. Hmm, I see what you mean. To page up
> from the first page of your record set, you'd have to have a select <=,
> then
> fetch *last followed by fetch *prior. Sounds messy. You're right, a fetch
> by
> key would be nice -- select the entire record set, then fetch by key to
> position within it. You could probably cobble something like that together
> by loading a user index based on the entire record set, then loading the
> subfile from that. By putting all the busy work in procedures the
> main code
> wouldn't be too bad.
>
> But it sounds like this is a case where Joe Pluta's correct - building a
> logical file and using native i/o (setll, read, readp) seems simpler,
> faster
> and cleaner.
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> Regards,
> Peter Dow
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> From: "Phil" <sublime78ska@yahoo.com>
> > Peter,
> >
> > That is how I handle page-up normally.
> >
> > The problem I'm having is that inorder to do a PositionTo I have to
> include
> > a where clause on the select statement:
> >
> > C                   eval      @select1 =
> > C                             'select * from rbsurchgp +
> > C                             where rbcco = ' + %editc(cpy:'X')
> > C                   if        PosToInd = *on
> > C                   eval      @select1 = @select1 +
> > C                             ' and rbccus >= ' + %editc(posToCus:'X')
> > C                   endif
> > C                   eval      @select1 = @select1 +
> > C                             ' order by rbcco, rbccus '
> > C
> >
> > If the user presses the F-key to bring up the position-to window, and
> > doesn't press cancel, I set on an indicator (PosToInd) and then add the
> > where clause.
> >
> > Now the cursor contains records >= to the position-to value.
> So what I'm
> > looking for is another way to position-to.  What I want is a fetch
> relative
> > where I can use the key rather than a rrn.
>
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