Re: Multi-membered file question?

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 07:31 AM 7/11/99 -0400, you wrote: 
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> Hi fellow listers,
> If a program processes a multi-membered file (without first setting OVRDBF to point to the member to process) what member will be processed?  If it is the first member?  Do I determine the first via DSPFD xxxxlib/filename *MBRLIST?

The AS/400 multi-membered file implementation is not as god as we would like.  The answer to your question is that the member that will be processed is the member that was added first.  The simple solution is to *ALWAYS use an OVRDBF command before processing a multi-membered file.

Al






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