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As someone else said, if we each had $100 to spend on RPG enhancements, this would not garner $1.

Old programs that use RAF still work. If anyone is creating new programs with RAF, they need to move into the 21st century.

I loved and used RAF's on the /36 because we were limited by disk space. Today there are more viable options (LF's and SQL DDM just to name two).

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M. Lazarus
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:38 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: 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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