Posted: 10 years 6 months 4 days 17 hours 35 minutes ago
Edited: Tue, 22 Oct, 2013 at 18:00:24 (3838 days ago)
In your update, is the File keyed and are you updating the key fields? Could it be that you put it back with a new key which places the record later in the keyed order and therefore it subsequently gets read again?
Posted: 10 years 6 months 4 days 16 hours 46 minutes ago
Yes, if you are updating a KEY field and READing by Key, that record could magically reappear.
What does your F-Spec look like? Is the K there or blank?
Chris Ringer
Posted: 10 years 6 months 4 days 15 hours 42 minutes ago
Edited: Tue, 22 Oct, 2013 at 19:58:00 (3838 days ago)
Yes the fields are part of the key, (item number) and I am changing it (addiding a suffix ie was A105 iow is A105-240). How can I get around it ?
Posted: 10 years 6 months 4 days 15 hours 41 minutes ago
Rember that the legacy *LOVAL is not usually what you want when doing a SETLL.
Typically you'll want to use *START
SETLL *START myfile;
Posted: 10 years 6 months 4 days 14 hours 47 minutes ago
Do you have to have the file keyed? You're SetLL and ReadE are both sequential. If you remove the K from the F-spec, and just read sequential, you'll still read the entire file, but you'll only get each record once.