RE: Chain doesn't set %EOF

May or may not need work variables. Depends on what the fields <Somekey> is. 

I don't think you would be using the fields from the data base for the Somekey 
fields. You would be using some other variables like this. 

 Setll (In_ORDN:In_SUFF:In_INVN) OPMCHGR1;           
 Dou 0 = 1;                                           
   Read OPMCHGR1;                                    
   If %EOF(OPMCHGR1) or
        In_ORDN <> CHORDN or                           
      In_SUFF <> CHSUFF or                           
      In_INVN <> CHINVN;                             
      Leave;                                         
   EndIf;                                            
                                                     
   If CHCHGC = 'MR' or CHCHGC = 'PR';                
      ReturnVal = ReturnVal + CHamt;                 
   EndIf;                                            
 EndDo;                                              

Free format just makes everything easier and you don't need to create key 
variables.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Morgan [mailto:pmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:35 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Chain doesn't set %EOF


Sudha,

Nah.  It only reads a block of records.  The difference is the key
comparison for ending the group is done in the program ( SomeKey <>
KeyField ) after the read rather than as part of the ReadE ( SomeKey )
opcode.  This logic requires work variables for all the key fields to be
compared against.

Paul

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Sudha wrote

> I don't understand. This would read the entire file and could be a
> potential huge performance issue depending upon the size of the file.
> Thanks,
> Sudha
>
> Sudha Ramanujan
> SunGard Futures Systems
> sramanujan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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