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

Buck,

I got it the idea
I read through the IBM documentation on EXTFMT. Understood what was wrong.
And I guess perrcd will come to place when we use compile time arrays right?
I am slightly confused on the second type?
Has precompile type arrays and Tables runout of steam?
Also regrading my earlier doubts can you just explain significance what  a
table is? Is it related to the table that we can create using strsql?


Sunil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard B Baird" <rbaird@esourceconsulting.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 9:34 PM
Subject: 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
>
>
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