Re: How do I retrieve the RRN of a PF or LF in a RPG program.

[Bruce Vining <bruce.vining@xxxxxxxxx>]

Uh, that value looks like an uninitialized storage location with blanks
written.  Check, or provide, your code.  I assure you that location is
golden.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 5:28 PM dfreinkel <dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks all so far.
>
> The program is a RPG/400 and I cannot find the maximum length of the data
> structure. The positions Paul gave return the value 1077952576.
>
> I should be seeing 94.
>
> Maybe what I want to do is not doable. Unfortunately I cannot upgrade the
> program to ILE. So here is my problem. I read file in a loop simply using
> READ. The first record is locked to another job. I need to be able to get
> the RRN of the locked record so that I can retrieve the job details locking
> the record and end the job.
>
> I have monitored for the error indicator and that is working. My problem is
> getting the RRN.
>
> Thanks
>
> Darryl Freinkel
> A4G.
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