Re: file access problem.....

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

At 8/2/00 02:22 PM -0500, you wrote:

> You're right that you can add more than one
> record with the same key
> because it's non-unique.
> But, using CHAIN to access your file, you will always get the first
> record
> added because it's relative record number is lower - records in a
> keyed
> physical file are "sorted" by the relative record number within
> each key value.


> But if you reuse deleted records, then I
> imagine this may not be the case?

 This is true.  The only way IBM will guarantee the sequence in
this case is if you specify *FIFO or *LIFO (is there another attribute?),
even though you will *usually* get *FIFO results w/o specifying it.

 -mark