Re: Deleted records

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To answer the RPG question, in the F specs you can declare the record
length if you make it an internally declared file, and not external.

Hit <F4> on the F-Spec.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Roger Boucher wrote:

> I wanted to look at deleted records in a save file and I tried to go to the
> midrange archives because I remember some posts on this, but something funny
> seems to be happening (www.midrange.com) and I can't get in.  I wrote a
> quick RPG to read the save file (am I totally on the wrong track here?) and
> I get the following message when I run the program.
>
> Message ID . . . . . . . . . :   CPF4187
>
> Message file . . . . . . . . :   QCPFMSG
>
>   Library  . . . . . . . . . :     QSYS
>
>
>
> Message . . . . :   Record length not valid for save file TEMP in QTEMP.
>
> Cause . . . . . :   The record length specified to open the file is not
> valid
>   for an online save file.
>
> Recovery  . . . :   Change the program to open the file specifying either no
>
>   record length or a record length of 528. You may need to delete the
> program
>   and create it again to make this change. Try the request again.
>
> Technical description . . . . . . . . :   The records in an online save file
>
>   are always 528 bytes long, and will not be padded or truncated by the
>
>   system. You cannot direct a program that specifies a secondary record
> length
>   to use an online save file.
>
> I compiled the RPG over this save file... what can I do to make the program
> happy?
> How do I change the program to open the file specifying a record length of
> 528?
> Again, am I completely going down the wrong track?
>
> Thanks for any help.
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