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  3. January 2005

Re: A different kind of persistence?

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:46:15 -0600 (CST), Scott Klement
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 

> Files in RPG have always been global to the module, they've never been
> local to a subprocedure.  You can code a data structure that's local to
> the module with LIKEREC and read the file into that -- that's much closer
> to having it be local to the subprocedure (but the ODP is still global!)
> 
> Or, if you really want to make it local, you can use the _Ropen(),
> _Rreadk(), etc routines from the ILE C runtime...  that would really make
> it local, and would give you the ability to have many copies of the same
> file open at the same time, in different subproedures, without affecting
> each other.

That is a good idea Scott, thanks. I look forward to trying those
routines and finding out if there is a performance hit compare to
native rpg i/o.

-Steve

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