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Brian, You could write a trigger program to be executed when the record is added. Check the number of records currently in the file, and delete the oldest one if your limit is reached. If there's a timestamp field in the file, this would be a piece of cake. HTH, Peter Colpaert Application Developer PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium ----- Yoda of Borg are we. Futile is resistance, assimilated will you be. ----- brian <bsl04@xxxxxxxx> Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 26/10/2006 04:08 Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject log file Is there something I can do to a file to cause it to keep the last <= n records added to it? That is, if n is 10, writing the 11th record would cause record 1 to be discarded, and the new record would be the 10th record in the file. Something like that would be useful in the case of a log file. The file is helpful for diagnosing recent problems, but you don't want it filling up the disk, or filling up and being unable to write more records.
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