RE: Special file parameter issue

Scott,

This started to dawn on me just before your message showed up.

I moved on to the delete op code and I think I'm seeing the same thing. I doesn't appear that the record portion is passed on a delete operation either. I guess key information will need to be passed as additional parms to specify which record to delete. Same thing if I want to mimic a Chain or do any kind of record positioning.

Rick

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:15 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Special file parameter issue

Hi Rick,

A WRITE statement in RPG will move the fields from your RPG program to the file (or SPECIAL file program in this case.)

A READ statement does the opposite, it moves the fields from the file (or SPECIAL program) to your RPG.

Therefore changing the fields before a READ doesn't make sense. But it does make sense that the field values you change prior to a READ won't be reflected in the SPECIAL program. After all... READ doesn't send data out to the special program! It just gets data as input from that program.

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