Re: Format Level Identifier on display file records

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/07/2010, at 9:09 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

> The question that leaves in my mind is how that might cause a  
> failure to
> occur at the UPDATE statement.  Shouldn't it occur at the second or  
> later
> call to QDBRTVFD?

Not necessarily and probably not in actuality either. The call will  
"work" because nothing has been trashed in QDBRTVFD. The damage occurs  
in the caller's storage so no failure is likely to be noticed until  
return to the caller. Exactly where the failure occurs will depend on  
the structure of the calling program.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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