RRN of an IP record

["Marchini, Richard" <richard.marchini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've encountered a problem that I've never seen in 30+ years of RPG
development. This morning we had a program issue an error which gave
response options of (C G D F). The input file is an Input Primary file,
and contains 19 records. When we checked the Display Open Files screen
of the job, and it showed the file at RRN 19, but with an I/O count of
one. We determined it would not be harmful to skip the record that was
causing the error, so we answered the error message with a 'G'. Much to
our surprise, the program did not end (we assumed it had read the last
record in the file), but returned with the same error. Further
examination revealed that the program was re-processing the same input
record, which happened to be the 2nd. record in the file, not the 19th.

I surmised that the program had read all 19 records into the input
buffer(s), and when the cycle returned to GETIN, because it didn't have
to do another disk access, it didn't advance to the next record. 

My question is, in the case of an Input Primary file, how can I
determine which record is actually being processed, short of dumping the
program? By the way, the program is vendor-written, and we cannot
rewrite it to not use the cycle.

I know this is really old stuff, but I will appreciate any information I
can get.

Thank you,

Rick Marchini
Associated Banc-Corp
IT Services
Mail Stop 7055
920-405-2587



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