Re: setll, reade question.

On 2012/10/18 2:28 PM, Gqcy wrote:

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some of us are remembering problems with not setting ALL KEY VALUES,
because you may have problems with the remaining key fields not being
set to *LOVAL...
However, I seem to think that was only when you were using a KLIST or
something like that...

I think it's not about whether you're using a KLIST, it's about whether you're using an externally described file.

With an externally described file, you can use a subset of the keys, and the other keys will not be considered. There's lots of ways to use a subset of the keys. A KLIST with only some keys, %KDS, a list of keys in free-form, or a single key as you've coded.

With a program described file, they didn't have the option of using a subset of the keys, so they had to put meaningful values for all the keys. I assume they would have defined the key as alpha, and used a data structure for the key values, setting the unwanted keys to loval or hival depending on the operation.