Re: Reading a control record in a subfile

["Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Elonna,

I'm not at all sure why chaining by rrn isn't retrieving the subfile
records.  This should work.  a couple things you might look at:

are you using the same RRN field name described in the F spec keyword?
is the same RRN field described in the subfile record? (as a hidden field
maybe)

another method you might try is that when you write records to your
subfile, use an activated (either by indicator on or no indicator) the
SFLNXTCHG keyword.  This causes all records to be 'changed' whether they've
been keyed into or not.

of course this could significantly slow your program down if you are apt to
have a large number of records in your subfile - and would certainly imply
that you might update all related records in the PF every time the user
presses enter.  but if it's not a significant number of records, the speed
loss would be minimal

hth,

rick