RE: subfile? -- RPG400-L

Hmmmm, now that you mention it, that brings something to mind.  Back when I
was learning about subfiles on the System/36, (yes they had subfiles on the
36 and yes, this was more than a few years ago and things may have changed
drastically since then)  there was a fairly explicit warning about not
having the subfile size equal to the page size.  It went something like -
(can't use quotes, don't remember it exactly) - Never define the page size
and the subfile size the same.  If you do, the results will be undetermined.
or something like that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Booth Martin [SMTP:Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:38 AM
> To:   rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      Re: subfile?
> 
> The system does care Scott.  I have no idea why but if the sflpag = sflsiz
> these two keywords are ignored.
>  
> I wonder why he can't just make the sflsiz one record larger than the
> sflpag
> though? What is the advantage of same sizes?
>  
>  
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> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Date: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:54:52 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: subfile?
>  
> > I have a situation where i have a page at a time subfile. Page = size.
> > A request has come in that will require a SFLFOLD/SFLDROP. It appears
> > that i cannot do this.
>  
> Why not? I wouldn't think the system would care if the subfile was page
> at a time or not? I mean there isn't really a difference between loading
> a subfile where there just happens to be only 10 records to display, and
> loading a subfile where you're only loading 10 records, then clearing it,
> and loading another 10... At least, the system doesn't know there's a
> difference!
>  
> So, you should be able to do SFLFOLD just as you would otherwise, aside
> from the obvious fact, of course, that there'll be fewer records displayed
> at a time...
>  
> > Does anyone know different and if so, how is this accomplished without
> > changing to an expanding subfile. This subfile contains more than 9999
> > records.
>  
> Alternately, you could just code two different subfiles, and switch
> between them when the fold/drop function key is pressed. That's easy to
> do, and should accomplish your goal...
>  
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