RE: LF Index Entries and QUSRMBRD

Hi Tony,

Assuming that the logical file has selection criteria so that it only
includes the records where the date field is not *LOVAL, then the number of
records in the file is the number of index entries.

In CL you could use RTVMBRD NBRCURRCD, or in RPG, use the file status data
structure to get the number of records at open, i.e. pos. 156-159 binary.

hth,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
www.dowsoftware.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> I am writing a balancing/checksum program, and there is an account file
(PF)
> with a date field. I want a count of all records where this date field
isn't
> *LOVAL. I could simply create an LF, then read and count the records, but
I
> notice that, once I create the LF, I can DSPFD it, and get the 'Number of
> index entries' from the display. So I want my program to use an API to get
> this info, and avoid any File I/O.
>
> I looked at QUSRMBRD, and I see the Current number of records field in the
> MBRD0200 format, but this is not what I am looking for. Has anybody else
> accomplished this, perhaps with a different API?

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