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On 2/24/2011 5:55 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
On 2/24/2011 5:27 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:
On 2/24/2011 4:02 PM, Mike Wills wrote:
I have a non-keyed view (created with CREATE VIEW) that I need to
reset the pointer to the beginning of the file each time I hit the
routine. When I use *START I get the error "RNF5319 Factor 2 operand
has a data type that is not allowed for this operation."

setll *start HOURCODER;
Factor 2 is the file or record format. *START is only valid with a file
name, so I'm guessing that HOURCODER is a record format name.

SETLL *START works with both keyed files and rrn files.

*START is definitely better than *LOVAL for a keyed file; *LOVAL doesn't
work properly if there are null-capable fields in the file.

*START probably works the same as 1 for a file processed by rrn, but
using *START is a good habit.

That's what I get for reading the manual, or perhaps not reading it closely enough!

The latest from RDPi says this right at the beginning of the SETLL documentation:

"If access is by relative record number, search-arg must be an integer literal or a numeric field with zero decimal positions."

*START is neither an integer literal nor a numeric field. Thus my confusion. However, later in the documentation it says this:

"You can use the special values *START and *END for search-arg. *START positions to the beginning of the file and *END positions to the end of the file. Both positionings are independent of the collating sequence used for keyed files."

So as sometimes happens in technical documentation, the full answer is subject to interpretation. It does say you must use the file name, though, and I concur with Brian's subsequent post that using *START is a more consistent (and intuitive) way to position. I suspect that when I do find the example I'll find that I used the record format name and changed it to the file name and all was well.

Joe

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