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Re: [*EXTERNAL*] File keyed on a date field: the read doesn't actually get anything! What am I doing wrong?

On 1/7/26 12:29 PM, Rick Rauterkus wrote:
Are you putting a value into JAN31? If not, you are just positioning to
the beginning of the file and reading the previous record which won't find
anything.

Yes. It's got a value (my apologies for not saying so earlier). The INZ(D'2017-01-31') clause on the declaration would have wrapped in the email.

And it has three friends, all of them INZ'd to different dates.

This excerpt is from a test program, after the real program exhibited the symptom; it uses a date value constructed from month, day, and year values read from a file.

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JHHL


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