RE: RPG II question

["John Furniss" <JFurniss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I remember those! You had to run a command just before the CALL
command in the CLP to populate the Record Address File. It was meant to
sort the data for input. Can't remember what the command to run is,
though.

John Furniss
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Boettcher
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:29 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: RPG II question

> From the manual with WDSC it is a Record Address File.  ONly used it a
few times, years ago.
Record Address File (RAF)
A record-address file is a sequentially organized file used to select
records from another file. Only one file in a program can be specified
as a record-address file. This file is described on the file description
specification and not on the input specifications. A record-address file
must be program-described; however, a record-address file can be used to
process a program described file or an externally described file.

The file processed by the record-address file must be a primary,
secondary, or full-procedural file, and must also be specified as the
parameter to the RAFDATA keyword on the file description specification
of the record-address file.

You cannot specify a record-address file for the device SPECIAL.

UCS-2 fields are not allowed as the record address type for record
address files.

A record-address file that contains relative-record numbers must also
have a T specified in position 35 and an F in position 22. 

Quoted from the RPG reference 

hth

Dave B

> > > "Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 10/16/07
4:21 PM >>>
Hi,

 

 

What does the file type of "R" mean in an RPGII file spec?  It's
position 18
of the "F" spec (where you might put a "P" for primary or "I" for
Input).

 

I so rarely use RPGII that I can no longer remember these old codes.

 

Thanks,

 

Shannon O'Donnell