Re: RPG II question

From the manual with WDSC it is a Record Address File. ONly used it a few times, years ago.

Record Address File (RAF)
A record-address file is a sequentially organized file used to select records from another file. Only one file in a program can be specified as a record-address file. This file is described on the file description specification and not on the input specifications. A record-address file must be program-described; however, a record-address file can be used to process a program described file or an externally described file.

The file processed by the record-address file must be a primary, secondary, or full-procedural file, and must also be specified as the parameter to the RAFDATA keyword on the file description specification of the record-address file.

You cannot specify a record-address file for the device SPECIAL.

UCS-2 fields are not allowed as the record address type for record address files.

A record-address file that contains relative-record numbers must also have a T specified in position 35 and an F in position 22.

Quoted from the RPG reference

hth

Dave B

"Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 10/16/07 4:21 PM >>>

Hi,





What does the file type of "R" mean in an RPGII file spec? It's position 18
of the "F" spec (where you might put a "P" for primary or "I" for Input).



I so rarely use RPGII that I can no longer remember these old codes.



Thanks,



Shannon O'Donnell