Re: Possible intereting SETLL behavior -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Possible intereting SETLL behavior
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 15:43:53 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Kevin Bucknum <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A long discussion about this behavior took place back in 2006. The TLDR
is everyone confirming the exact behavior you are seeing, and Barbara
noting that she doesn't have any insight. RPG passes the RRN to data
management and this is what is returned.

Excellent digging!

Start of thread -
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200610/msg00411.html
Barbara's response -
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200610/msg00468.html

Additional posts that may be of particular interest from that thread:

Barbara mentions that this is more of a doc bug than a problem with
functionality:

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200610/msg00469.html

Vern chimes in to say, in effect, the observed behavior is
understandable and follows (a different passage in) the official docs:

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200610/msg00416.html

You didn't seem too confused about it back then, Vern! ;)

John Y.

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