RE: Retrieving member names

["Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you everyone for helping me with this. Unfortunately, due to other
circumstances, we're going to use single-member rather than multi-member
physical files. This is good info to have, and I was considering
learning the APIs to list the members.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Hall [SMTP:peteh@inwave.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 8:54 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Retrieving member names
> 
> At 10:28 08/04/98 -0400, Loyd Goodbar wrote:
> >In CL, how do I retrieve a list of database member names? I'm
> creating a
> >command that uses members, and I'm trying to determine whether the
> >member exists. The hitch is I'm allowing *FIRST or *LAST for the
> member
> >name, but CHKOBJ doesn't allow *LAST as a member parameter. So, do I
> use
> >CHKOBJ or is there another way?
> 
> Loyd,
> 
> Use the RTVMBRD command. It not only allows *FIRST and *LAST (creation
> order), but also *FIRSTMBR and *LASTMBR (alphabetic). You can also set
> the member name to the last value retrieved and specify *NEXT or *PRV
> as a relationship to that name. You can even specify a generic name.
> The member name is returned in the (what else) RTNMBR parameter. If
> you're going to use the *NEXT or *PRV keywords, start with *FIRSTMBR
> or *LASTMBR, as it seems these keywords seem to work alphabetically.
> 
> hth
> Pete
> 
> 
> Pete Hall
> peteh@inwave.com 
> http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/
> 
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