Re: Readp statement wait indefinitely

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

Nanda,

 If it's truly waiting, then check out the OVRDBF statement for that 
file.  There should be a parm EOFDLY(), which controls this behavior.

 -mark

At 8/14/05 08:10 PM, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need some assistance in understanding the concept of how ReadP statment 
> works.   I see the following set of statments in one of our RPGLE programs:
>
> *Loval          SetLL           File1
>                    ReadP(E)     File1
>
> The above ReadP statement is simply waiting for infinite time till a 
> record is inserted into File1.       I expected a BOF or EOF 
> condition.     I would like to know on what conditions a ReadP statement 
> waits for a record to be inserted and in what condition just returns "No 
> Record Found" condition.
>
> Please help me in understanding this concepts.
>
> TIA,
> Nanda