Re: SFLNXTCHG head-scratcher

["Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc." <mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any more I just process the whole subfile by putting a chain rrn inside a for...next loop. I always know how many records I have in there, so it is quick and easy to do. To determine if a record is changed, I put hidden fields in for each input field, and compare the two. I populate those hidden fields whenever I load a subfile record, and when I save it.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- 
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/13/2015 01:03PM
Subject: Re: SFLNXTCHG head-scratcher

O.k., that would explain it.  Normally, this is how it should work.
However, this is not a "normal" program, and the update routine I posted in
my last post needs to run before the next EXFMT.  I would have expected the
RPG Reference to explain that an I/O on the subfile control record was
required before a READC would pick something up.

- Dan

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:44 PM, John R. Smith, Jr. <
smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is correct.  You must do some type of I/O on the control record for
> the
> SFLNSTCHG to trigger.  It has been a long time but doing just a write
> instead of an EXFMT of the control record might work.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roche,
> Bob
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:40 PM
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
> Subject: RE: SFLNXTCHG head-scratcher
>
> But the READC is already past that record so it won't read it again until
> you EXFMT(write/read) the subfile. At least I never got it to work without
> doing that.
>