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Barbara,

Is there any good technical (not historical) reason that we still have any opcodes that can't use record formats and file names, for data files, interchangeably? PF's can't contain multiple formats. Multi-format LF's are relatively rare nowadays. The only time it would require differentiation is if a MFLF is used.

Is there a consideration to relax that requirement?

-mark


At 2/24/2011 06:55 PM, you 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.


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