Re: File keyed on a date field: the read doesn't actually get anything! What am I doing wrong? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: File keyed on a date field: the read doesn't actually get anything! What am I doing wrong?
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 14:31:16 -0800
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On 1/7/26 2:04 PM, Raul Alberto Jager Weiler wrote:

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

THAT WAS IT!!!!

Scatter-gather wasn't happening on any of the fields because I wasn't referencing them (yet).

Thanks. I knew that, but I'd forgotten it. Maybe it's time for me to (as George Washington so famously put it) "retire to the back-country, and live in a wigwam."

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JHHL

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