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Mark,
Apparently I missed that part of the discussion. Still, the concept of a "limits" file does not ring a bell. Would it be possible to put up a few lines of code (F-spec and whatever, and a few lines of Calcs) to jog or enlighten my thinking.
Thanks.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M. Lazarus
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 9:30 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: Update primary filre
Jerry,
As mentioned earlier, this request is NOT referring a record
address file, as would be typically generated by FMTDTA (or by
#GSORT). Rather it's referring to a technique where you can specify
one or more ranges of keys to process via a "limits" file.
This has nothing to do with conserving disk space. Other methods
require a lot more code and end up being quite messy when dealing
with many ranges of records to select.
-mark
At 5/1/09 08:15 AM, you wrote:
>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
>IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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>email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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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