RE: API to retrieve data field contents

["John Brandt Sr." <pgmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Relative record number array that you pass to this API is the reference
to the records. This API no longer works with LF's or DDMF's, so it's a
pure reference to the relative record number. It would be up to you to 
parse the data and perform any update/delete by relative record number.

John Brandt 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Mason [mailto:jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 4:06 AM
To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: API to retrieve data field contents


Hi

Has anybody had any experience of using API's to retrieve the contents of PF
fields?  I've been looking at the API documentation, and the only one that I
can find that looks like what I need is QDBBRCDS.  The description says
about bringing the records into main storage, and only provides input
parameters for the records you want.  How do you reference the records
afterwards as there's no pointer or anything returned by the API?

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Jonathan Mason
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