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  3. October 2006

Re: Update A File After A Couple Other Chains

Make the chain a chain with an (n) no-lock extender. Then, chain again at the time of updating. If you have several lines of intervening code, as you have here, someone someday will mess it up and it will be a bear to find the problem. 

Mike wrote:

I have some code to update a file. The problem is that I need to collect
additional information before I can update the file. So here is what I do
now. The read is way up in the code.

         iActCd = w2InvstTyp;
         if w2InvstDsc = ' ';
           chain (w2InvstTyp) NCACTCR;
           iActCdDsc = aCodeDesc;
         else;
           iActCdDsc = w2InvstDsc;
         endif;

         monitor;
           update NIMASTR;
           error = *OFF;
         on-error *FILE;                  // Handle uncaught exceptions
           error = *ON;
           w2Error = 'File error code ' + %char(%status());
         endmon;

So, my question is, can you do an update after the chain has been long done?
Or what would be a better way to process this?

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