Re: Problem with reading a file that does have keys

On 10/23/2018 1:53 PM, Thomas Burrows wrote:

Here is what I mean from top to bottom on the file.
Using DBU here are the first three variables or columns.
Key 1 is the first column A5 length. Key 2 is the second column A14 length

company Customer National
Account
005 000059 000059
005 000117 000117
005 000125 000117
005 000133 000117
005 000141 000117
005 000158 000117
005 000166 021436
005 000174 074625
005 000182 000182
005 000208 000208
005 000224 000224

Code

setll (cuco: cucuno) arlcu;
dow not %eof(arlcu);
exsr mainloop;
enddo;

begsr mainloop;
read arlcu;
if cunano = ' 000117';
count4 = count4 + 1;
cunano = cunano;
endif;
count1 = count1 + 1;
endsr;

I get 14 for count4. And 36 thousand plus for counter1. Which is the
number of records in ARLCU.

If we can assume that the SETLL uses the lowest CUCO and CUCUNO values,
the DOW would start at the lowest record and run to %EOF. COUNT1 would
then be 36k, right?

And because the DOW doesn't stop when CUNO changes, or CUCUNO changes,
COUNT4 represents every row in the file that is for National Account
000117, regardless of CUNO or CUCUNO.

You might want a READE, to restrict the DOW just to the keys of interest.

One thing I've found personally helpful is my Best and Dearest Friend
QSYSPRT, and I mean that sincerely. I'd put in an EXCEPT at each of the
places where the counts are incrementing and some O-specs that print the
fields that will give me that Aha!. It seems faster for me to reach that
Aha! moment when I WRKSPLF than when I'm in debug.

Oh, one other thing - I used to leave debugging code like that in the
source, conditioned on U8 or some such. Today, I'd wrap it in
conditional compilation like this:

// uncomment below for printed debugging info
// define DEBUG

/if defined(DEBUG)
except prtDetail;
/endif

Which in real life is a LF, but when I copied
the file into my library ARLCU became a PF.

Yep. What you want to do is CRTDUPOBJ the PF, make sure your library is
at the top of *LIBL, then CRTDUPOBJ the LF. Then you'll see the LF in
your lib pointing to the PF in your lib.