RE: Reading a member file -- RPG400-L

Yes but, there are many years of data in this file.

It is a REPAIRS file, that has the comments they want to see in the report.

THe invoice number, is the member name. ( it is a rather old piece of
work, from Sys38 days, infact the file is PF38).

SO I plan on doing a call to a second program passing the invoice number
to the CL, doing an OVRDBF w/ this file and invoice/member-name.

Read that member, get the commments.

Then I can pass the comments back, or perhaps update the file right there
in the second program, if I close the file first?



> Simple solution there Steema... Thanks...
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> "The more you know"
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> Michael Schutte
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> You don't need to create a list of member names to process all the members
> in a
> file.
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> Simply override the file to MBR(*ALL) and then call the program as usual.
> When
> you read the file you will read records from the first member in the file.
> When
> you hit the last record in that first member, and then do a subsequent
> READ, the
> system does a sort of mini-close/open of the file; opening the next
> member.
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> This "just happens" you don't have to create the member list.  The INFDS
> for the
> file contains the "current" member name as you read through the file's
> records.
> So you always know what member you are processing.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Here's what I would do...  Either use the API that the other person
> suggested (I'll have to keep that in mind the next time, that one is new
> to
> me), or the CL command that I suggested.
>
> If you use the CL command, first execute the CL command to build the file
> in QTEMP...
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> Then in the RPG program do...
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> FDSPFD     IF   E           K DISK    ExtFile(QTEMP/DSPFD)
>  * I'm doing this from memory, so I don't know if you can
>  * reference a field from DSPFD file. You may need to Change
> FMYFILE    IF   E           K DISK    ExtMbr(MBNAME) UsrOpn
>
>  /Free
>
>    Read DSPFD;
>    DoW not %EoF(DSPFD);
>
>        // Close MyFile In Case It's Open
>        If %Open(MyFile);
>           Close MyFile;
>        EndIf;
>
>        // Open MyFile To The Member
>        // Specified In field MBNAME
>        Open MyFile;
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>        Read MyFile;
>        DoW not %EoF(MyFile);
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>            // Do MyFile Processing... Writing To Workfile
>            Read MyFile;
>        EndDo;
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>        Read DSPFD;
>    EndDo;
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>    // Close MyFile In Case It's Open
>    If %Open(MyFile);
>       Close MyFile;
>    EndIf;
>
>    *InLr = *On;
>    Return;
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>  /End-Free
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> I think what I can do is to read the entire file, and make a work file out
> of it.
> I only need to be concerned w/ the past 2 years.
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> Is the approach the same in this scenario, of reading the file, all of the
> members? U would have to make it a called program w/ the ovrdbf?
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>> I don't know if you got the answer you wanted, but one suggestion that
>> comes to mind.
>>
>> DSPFD FILE(LIBRARY/FILE) TYPE(*MBR) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) FILEATR(*ALL)
> OUTFILE
>> (QTEMP/DSPFD)
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>> Then you can read through QTEMP/DSPFD looking at the field... MBNAME
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>> Hope that helps.
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>> Michael Schutte
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>> HI - also they now want to add a comment to the report. Doesn't have to
> be
>> on the subfile. THe comment is stored on a file by member. THe name of
> the
>> member is the invoice number. That is fine I have that. My question is
> how
>> to read this file, by setll, or can chain, or some other way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
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