Re: Update primary filre

The logic for what and when to write to the work file is identitcal to what
and when to update to the logical or 2nd copy of the primary file, no? And
then you still have to write a new program to read the work file and chain
to the primary file to do the updates. Or am I missing something?


In a message dated 4/24/2009 1:31:51 A.M. Jerusalem Daylight Time,
booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Just a small comment: This is already a bad enough program, right? The
less you add to it, the better. Would you consider just adding a work
file and input the data into it, and then after this monster runs, runs
another single-purpose program to update the fields based on the data
captured by the monster?

.

Robert Nesiba wrote:

Probably the infDS, in lieu of look-ahead, might work
but our program has a bunch of total time L1 calculations,
and I don't want to make any major changes to the overall
program logic.

We're probably going to have to leave our primary file as input,
and then add another file spec for update, either updating a new logical
file
or using OVRDBF to point to the same file.
Any reason that won't work?
Thanks.

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