Re: CL DCLF

[Carel Teijgeler <teygeler@xxxxxxx>]

"Bull, Jeff" wrote:

> Hi all,
>         does anyone know how to get a dclf'ed physical file in a CL program
> to reposition back to start of file ?  I've tried OVRDBF  POSITION(*START)
> and POSITION(*RRN 1); neither seem to work.  Perhaps I am trying to do the
> impossible ?
>
> Kind regards,
> Jeff Bull.
> Senior AS/400 Support Consultant (AS/400)
> Midas Kapiti International Ltd
>

Jeff,

You have to retrieve the number of records in the member of the file and use a
loop counter to know, if the last record has been read.

The moment a CLP reach the end of file a message CPF0864 is sent and then you 
can
do nothing to read the file all over again.

With regards,

Carel.


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