RE: Doubt on prerun time array And a doubt about batch job

Buck,

AHA!  Me too (live and learn that is)

the operative keyword must be EXTFMT(P).   i also tried changing the table
record len to 5 (as it should be) using this keyword and it compiled and
ran fine.  the PERRCD(1) keyword is unnecessary, whether you use 5 or 10.
1 is the default for that keyword.

Are you getting all of this Sunil?

btw, when was the last time anyone actually designed for table files?  I
know it's quicker to do a lookup, but I just chain anymore.  This, i'm
pretty sure was a 'feature' that was introduced before the chain opcode,
and used after chain, only because random disk access used to be so
resource expensive.

it's so nice to rarely have to count cycles anymore....

Rick

----Buck's original message-------
Live and learn.  (me that is)

I did it in RPG III like this:
FPF1     IT  F      10           EDISK
E    PF1             ARE     1   1  9P0
C           ARE,1     DSPLY
C                     SETON                     LR

Then I did a CVTRPGSRC and got this:
FPF1       IT   F   10        DISK
D ARE             S              9  0 DIM(1) EXTFMT(P) FROMFILE(PF1)
D                                     PERRCD(1)
C     ARE(1)        DSPLY
C                   SETON                                        LR