RE: delete records from a S/36 (QS36F) file?

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nope.  Already had that.  As mentioned in the first post, the file in
question does not allow deletes.

I should have phrased the question better.  What I was really after was
whether S/36 files were typically not delete-capable.  Memory seems to serve
that one would typically use a one-character status field, change a record's
status to 'D' or 'X' when it became "deleted", and those records were not
included in a reorg at some future date.

I was going to surmise that S/36 RPG-II did not allow a program to delete
records from a file, but then RPG-II has always had the DEL option on the
O-spec, hasn't it?

P.S.  I solved the problem by just putting the delete status on the records
I was trying to delete, so they'll be purged at the end of the month.

Thanks!

Dan Bale
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Richard B Baird
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:08 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: delete records from a S/36 (QS36F) file?



What about this?

C            except     delrecord

....

Ofilename   EDEL               delrecord

---original message------
Wracking my brains, trying to figure out how to delete records from a
program-described file.  Finally determined that the S/36-type file does
not allow deletes.  Is this typical for QS36F files?