RE: Any legitimate reason for 'UF A E' file defn when output only?

I may be misremembering all of the implications of this, but I've seen this
used all the time in a package from a vendor who refuses to update their
code. Most of the time, the usage of the file in the program is for read
only or write only, but it has the full "UF A E" syntax.

The only thing I came up with is that they are doing a "full open" so that
everything will share the same ODP.

Craig Pelkie

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 9:24 AM
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Subject: Re: Any legitimate reason for 'UF A E' file defn when output only?

Copy/Paste Don't think.

I love the new free-form declarations because when copy/pasting this kind of
definition it would be obvious and hopefully all but the laziest of
programmers would have spotted it and made the adjustments. Most people
can't remember what letter in which column means what and as a result there
are a lot of cloned F-specs out there that make no sense.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jun 6, 2017, at 12:14 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:01 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/6/17, 8:49 AM, Dan wrote:

So, my question here: Is there any legitimate reason that I'm
missing why you would want to force a write to storage for every
single output operation?

Synchronization with something else running concurrently in a
different job?

Nope.

Of course, there's always the possibility that the program evolved
from (or the line was simply cut and pasted from) something that DID
need to read and/or update the file, and nobody gave any thought to

optimization.

This is what I'm thinking as well, but wanted to make sure I wasn't
missing some obscure technique.

- Dan
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