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

Do you use the field from the file?
RPG does not load the fields if there are not used.
A DSPLY can help

El mié, 7 de ene de 2026, 15:26, James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

In my current project, I've got a file, keyed on a date field:

R SLSMONTHR
SMLASTDATE L
SMCARRYOVR L
SMMONTH 2S
SMYEAR 4S
SM_OK 1A
SM_ID 15S 0
K SMLASTDATE

And I'm trying to read it:
D JAN31 S D
. . .
C JAN31 SETLL SLSMONTHS
C READP SLSMONTHS

But running it in the debugger, after the read, there's nothing in any
of the file fields. I've tried the PF with its ascending key on
SMLASTDATE; I've tried an LF with a descending key on SMLASTDATE. I've
tried SETLL and SETGT. None of this changes anything.

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