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Scott Klement wrote:
This is a poor design. If you want the records to always come in FIFO
sequence, then create the file with the FIFO keyword.
The general notion that there's an unspecified but reliable key (arrival
order) isn't really a problem if the designer controls all access to the
file. I had an unpleasant surprise when a customer did a CPYF (backup
before a release upgrade) and then a CPYF back (after messing up the
configuration) and the record order was changed. In my case, it was no
big deal - a discrepancy between a screen shot in the docs and the
actual displayed data. The surprise was some years after I deployed my
code to the field, so it took some puzzling to work out what was going on.
I now try not to rely on undocumented behaviour, no matter how often I
might observe it.
--buck
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