How do you find out whether a record is present in the
physical file without reading the file?
for Example Employee No: 100 in an Employee master.How do
we find out whther 100 is present in Employee master
without reading the file?
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Answer / samul paul
With the help of SETLL using EQ indi,we can check the
existance of record wihtout reading the file.
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Answer / kaka halwai
100 SETLL Employee master
IF %EQUAL(Employee master)
record is found
Else
Record is not found..
Endif
:-)
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / rashmimalpani
You can do SETLL and then use %found to check whether the
record exist in the file.
Chain itself does the SETLL operation on the file and reads
the subsequent record if match is found.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 14 Yes | 11 No |
Answer / ld123q44
SETLL described by everyone above is the answer provided the
file has an index by Employee No.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / spmk
Hi.....
With the help of 'File information data structure'
we can find the existence of record in physical file.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 3 No |
Answer / srinivas
100 chain filename
if %found
dsply the record
else
display the norerord
endif
or
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 5 No |
Answer / prasanna
If you Request was thru program then you can do it by SETLL
else DSPPFM or DSPF command
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 6 No |
*loval setll file
read recor 70
in indicator on norecords in file ,else records in file
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 5 No |
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