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Oh man, am I going to hate myself for this.

You want to use LOOKAHEAD in your i specs. The lookahead field gives you the fields you are interested in before you actually read the record. That way you can Look ahead" and see if the next record is in this set or the next set.


I haven't used lookahead for 30+ years, but its probably still available?




Robert Nesiba wrote:
We have an old, large program (that we don't want to rewrite) which processes a primary file and a secondary file using L1 M1 processing. Both files are currently input only, and externally defined. At L1 total time an answer is calculated that we want to write back into the primary file. When we change the primary to update capable, the L1 answer gets written into the subsequent record. We have tried both UPDATE and EXCEPT, and get the same result: data updates the wrong (subsequent) record. What's the best (or the easiest way) to update the correct primary file record? Thanks!

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