Re: Does the CLEAR operation on an input-only file do anything?

I've always used *ALL, seeing as how you provided the docs, I remember why
now. I believe you are correct.

A quick debug should prove that for sure.


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On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:52 PM <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been working with what I would consider a bug in a vendor supplied
program. They're processing a file conditioned on an optional field in a
secondary file. The secondary file is specified as input-only, externally
described, and keyed. For each record in the primary file, they do a chain
to the secondary (input-only) file. Then the code is something like:

---------------

chain (keys) secondary-record;
if not %found;
clear secondary-record;
endif;

---------------

In the ILE RPG Reference Manual under Initialization Operations, it reads:

"When these operation codes are applied to record formats, only fields
which are output are affected (if factor 2 is blank) or all fields (if
factor 2 is *ALL)."

Also in the manual under "Clearing Record Formats" and the CLEAR operation
code:

if *ALL is not specified, only those fields with a usage of output or both
are affected. All field-conditioning indicators of the record format are
affected by the operation.

So am I correct in getting back to the vendor and telling them they aren't
coding the CLEAR incorrectly? i.e., It should be coded:

clear *all secondary-record;

Thanks,
Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
(419) 753-1222
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