Re: READE question

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Incorrect.  Partial keys work with chains, and are very handy when needed.

John Furniss wrote:
> The same is not true on a CHAIN, correct?
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> John Furniss
> Allied Machine & Engineering, Corp
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> yes...it's called a partial key...you *never* have to specify the entire
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> key for a file (unless you want/need to 8^) )
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> Thanks,
> Tommy Holden
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> From:
> Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:
> rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date:
> 07/23/2008 01:47 PM
> Subject:
> READE question
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>
> HI I have a Logical file that has several fields as the key.  Can I do a
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> SETLL/READ if I have only the first field of this key? Instead of having
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> to create another logical. 
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