RE: SETLL in SQL ?

From: Paul Raulerson

Well, if you insist:

If you initially created the cursor with a "position to" (in SQL terms, a

WHERE clause such as WHERE NAME >= "G"), and then immediately try to roll
back >(to get the last page of names starting with "F") you cannot use the
RELATIVE technique.

If your cursor contains ALL the records in the file, then you can

certainly
roll through them, but typically the user wants to position to a starting

key value, which requires the WHERE clause above (which corresponds to a

SETLL in RPG). Once you've done that, there's no way to use that cursor
to
get >previous records.

Joe

Paul, which phrase here do you think says you can't move backwards in a
cursor? I specifically mention the RELATIVE technique, which shows I know
what you're talking about; what I specifically say is that you can't move
backwards to get records prior to the WHERE clause.

What part of this is still unclear to you? Do you know of some way to
create a cursor WHERE NAME >= "G" and somehow roll backwards to get a record
with NAME = "F"?

Then again, I would
probably just use files to do this on the 400. <shrug>

And once again, we agree. Okay, we've beaten this horse quite completely to
death.

Joe