Re: Look-ahead file and 2 "files" pointing on the same PF

Charles,

I try to use look-ahead fields in a program. The primary file is an update

file....

When I debug my program, I see that the *INMR is set on but my look-ahead

fields have the same values that the current record of my secondary file.
It
is supposed to have the value of the next record.

The problem is the update file.  Consider this statement in the RPG
reference manual:

  "When a record is being processed from a combined file or an update file,
the data
in the lookahead field is the same as the data in the record being
processed, not
the data in the next record."

I think this is because of the record lock being held, and it doesn't
retrieve the next record until you have finished the cycle with the current
record and updated or release the record.
Lookahead has always worked this way -- I remember dealing with this back in
the 70's when I first did matching records.

What exactly is the goal you are trying to accomplish?

Doug