Re: Update primary filre

[Robert Nesiba <bob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We thought of that, but were hoping for something even easier.
Is it simply "in the nature" of the matching record processing that
prevents us from updating back into the primary file record?
In our data, there is always just one primary, and none, one, or several 
secondary rcds.
With match record is the primary just not-available-for-update at total 
time?
Thanks.


Wintermute, Sharon wrote:
> Any reason you can't use a logical over the same input file as a third
> output only file?  That way you would not have to change the input
> primary at all. 
>
>
> Sharon Wintermute
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> Subject: Update primary filre
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> We have an old, large program (that we don't want to rewrite) which 
> processes a primary file and a secondary file using L1 M1 processing.  
> Both files are currently input only, and externally defined.   At L1 
> total time an answer is calculated that we want to write back into the 
> primary file.  When we change the primary to update capable, the L1 
> answer gets written into the subsequent record.  We have tried both 
> UPDATE and EXCEPT, and get the same result:  data updates the wrong 
> (subsequent) record.  What's the best (or the easiest way) to update the
> correct primary file record?  Thanks!
>
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