RE: Open file in RPG causing only certain records to appear.

Thanks for your help.  I suspected it was a buffering issue, or record 
blocking issue.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
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You're running into the old record blocking issue.  By default, RPG 
manages
the blocking size to optimize performance.  When the program "WRITE"s a
record to a file, that record may or may not become available to other
programs.

There are a number of ways around it.  My company executed many 
performance
tests before concluding that writing a record to a logical file solves 
this
problem best.  That was, however, back on V3R1.

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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Then we modified the RPG program to turn on lr prior to exit and that
resolved it.  We now see all 8 records.  Why? 
Buffering issue?  The called RPG program writes the records to this file.
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