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  3. April 2009

Re: Update primary filre

Barbara,

That means that it's more difficult to generate the limits file and the key lengths need to be hardcoded in the program(s) using it.

Is there any technical barrier to implementing it "properly"?

-mark


At 4/30/09 09:21 PM, you wrote:
Jeff Young wrote:
> ... A Limits file was a file that had a record length of exactly
> twice the length of the key of the file to be processed. This file
> contained a From and To key to be processed. The data in this file
> would be used by the system to read all records in the group
> represented by the From and To keys. AFIK, this method of processing
> is only valid for program defined files.
>

The file to be processed can be an externally-described file (both RPG
III and RPG IV). The limits file does have to be program defined.


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