RE: Mystery of the IFS

My guess, your process creates an intermediary file in QTEMP and then the second run just append to this file then exports it.

Chris Hiebert
Senior Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marvin Radding
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 3:07 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)' <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Mystery of the IFS

I am having a problem using the IFS. I am using an RPG program to create a CSV file. The file has headers followed by the data. If I run the program multiple times in a single sign on, the headers multiple, meaning each time I run the program, a new header is added to the file followed by the data. The headers are added to the beginning of the file, resulting in multiple header lines followed by the data. This occurs even if I use Ops-Nav to delete the file before I run it a second or more times. Does anyone have any idea what is happening?

Thanks,

Marvin
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