Re: Help with SETGT

["Bob P. Roche" <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Everyone already said you should use %EOF. Which you should be cause you 
really care about the whether the READPE was successful not the SETGT.

The other part of why %FOUND works for lower values , but not for the last 
record is that SETGT will set the %FOUND value, but it won't recognize 
setting the pointer outside of your file storage which you tried to do. 
When you enter a lower order number it finds a place to set the pointer 
and turns on the %FOUND indicator. 



From:
"Elbert Cook" <elbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
"'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
01/25/2011 12:23 PM
Subject:
Help with SETGT
Sent by:
rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



I guess I need help with SETGT

I have a physical file keyed unique by order number.

I do the following.

Order# = 561329;     // 561329 is the highest value, and also the 
physically
last record in the file
SETGT Order# MyFile;
READPE Order# MyFile;
If %found(MyFile);

I don't get a Hit, %found evaluates to false.
Any other value give a Hit. But I don't get a Hit using the highest value
(also being the last physical record) in the file?

Is this the correct behavior for SETGT?