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Have you tried removing the parenthesis? In other words, do: CHAIN rrn Filename; instead of CHAIN (rrn) Filename; That would be my first guess, anyway. On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, William Washington III wrote: > > How does one get to the last record of an externally-defined, > arrival-sequence (i.e., no keys) file without reading thru every record? I > want to start the program, then immediately hit the end-of-file, then wait > for a new record to appear. (I know about overriding the file with > EOFDLY(nnn) for this to work.) > > I added the RECNO(rrn) keyword to the file definition, set rrn=*hival and > tried using > > CHAIN (rrn) Filename and > SETGT (rrn) Filename. > > I keep getting compile error messages saying "key field list not allowed with > program described file". > > I have the file defined as an input, full procedural, externally-described > disk file with a blank record address type and a RECNO keyword. To me, that > makes this a file to be processed by relative record number. > > Where am I going wrong????? Ideas??? (I haven't had to deal with relative > record number processing outside of subfiles since my S/34 Mapics days fresh > out of school!) > > Many thanks in advance, > > William > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list > To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l > or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. >
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