Re: Using CL to call RPG pgms

[Tony Carolla <carolla@xxxxxxxxx>]

eh... yeah. That is how the original design was conceived (although I was 
just a youngster -- er... not born yet, so I might be mis-stating it), one 
program, one file to churn through, and supporting files set up as secondary 
files. Input, processing, output. Of course, if I want to churn through a 
few files, perhaps in different dataset libraries, with the same name and 
format, well, I suppose I could er... well, that would be tough. 

But if I wanted to run through only one file each time the program was 
called, and the file was in one of 60 libraries, determinable at runtime I 
could do that by... er... well, AHHAH! I could write a driver CL program to 
do an OVRDBF -- but that's another thread. 

What's so bad about handling the record blocking? The formula I use is 
pretty simple -- I consider file size, average number of recs that might be 
read, and environment (interactive or batch), and make a judgement. In fact, 
I think there should be an H-Spec for the number of records read at each 
READ operation. Why make us do an override in a rather mysterious way, than 
just tell the machine what you want? 

On 9/2/05, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Only one primary file? Isn't that what secondary files are for? (Other
> than matching records.)
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> > What, you don't make the file a Primary file so you get the compilation
> > message RNF7086-"RPG handles blocking for this file..."?
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> Sure! I would love to! As soon as I can specify a DS that the 'primary'
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> can be READ into by the hidden cycle details. Oh... wait... you can only
> have one primary file, right? <vbg> hehe... no thanks.
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