Re: Possible intereting SETLL behavior -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Possible intereting SETLL behavior
From: CRPence <crpbottle@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:49:03 -0600
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On 08-Dec-2015 11:51 -0600, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

<<SNIP>>

*START was, so far as I know, a pretty late addition - came out at
7.1, I believe. I don't recall anything about using a value for
this, rather, that the file is positioned "...to the beginning of
the file...", with no regard for actual values. <<SNIP>>

Been around longer than that. I retain actual code, functional on v5r3, that uses the figurative constants on SETLL for Arrival sequence.

Perhaps telling however, is that the indicators other than the /error/ indicator are not allowed when using a figurative constant on SETLL using fixed-format.? That would seem to suggest that, in the past anyhow, that SETLL had no intention of ever setting the %found() [or of course the %eof()] indicator.?

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