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Update Program

Asked by: BoltonWanderer

Hi All

First of all many thanks in advance, I am a relative newbie to RPG and I need a little help if you can?

I need to write a program that cycles down an input file that has two fields:

RECID (8N),PODID (20N)

For each record in the INPUT file, it needs to read RECID chain off to a logical file called "ORDERS" on ORD40 (8N)and update a FIELD called POD40 (20N) with the data that is in PODID.

I dont have a logical file created on the input file as it is just file that comes from an external system. I can make sure that all the programs are in the same Library.

Anyone got a sample program or structure I can use to do this?

Eventually I need to make sure this runs every hour.

Cheers
BoltonWanderer

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by: tliottaPosted on 2009-04-06 at 17:43:17ID: 24083137

BoltonWanderer:

Any chance of a hint about what RPG you'll be using and which platform (operating system version/release)? You use the term "logical file", so I'd guess that it's somewhere in the AS/400 line. But even that term is a little generic.

Tom

 

by: murphey2Posted on 2009-04-07 at 14:41:36ID: 24092266

Hi BoltonWanderer,

Why creating an RPG if you also can do it with SQL on the as/400?

UPDATE ORDERS SET POD40 =
   (SELECT PODID FROM INPUTfile WHERE PODID = POD40)

On this moment I'm between 2 jobs and can not use an AS400 to check so Please forgeve me if I made a syntax error.

This update statement can be included in a Query Manager Query source and included in a CL.
to run it every 30 minutes, you can scedule this cl every 30 minutes or include a delay of 1800 seconds.
Even better is to schedule the job once and change the sceduled job at the end of your CL with CHGJOBSCDE to set the new scheduled time.

Regards,
Murph



 

 

by: tliottaPosted on 2009-04-07 at 15:32:59ID: 24092612

Murph:

I thought pretty much the same thing. I suspect it'd be a bit more like:

UPDATE ORDERS SET POD40 =
   (SELECT PODID FROM INPUTfile WHERE ORD40 = RECID)

...but that's just a "typo".

In any case, if this is mainframe or HP RPG, or even elsewhere, the solution might need to be different. And if it's really in the AS/400 line, it might be RPG II (i.e., S/36), RPG III or RPG IV.

It all depends on what the actual requirement is. Maybe it's an exercise for learning RPG, in which case a QM solution won't help.

But it's hard to tell what needs to supplied. A RPG IV version may be quite different from RPG II (or not).

Tom

 

by: murphey2Posted on 2009-04-08 at 02:38:33ID: 24095194

Yes Tom,

Thanks for correcting me.

Regards,
Murph

 

by: IKDISTPosted on 2009-12-02 at 09:23:14ID: 25954302

need to write a program that cycles down an input file that has two fields:

RECID (8N),PODID (20N)

For each record in the INPUT file, it needs to read RECID chain off to a logical file called "ORDERS" on ORD40 (8N)and update a FIELD called POD40 (20N) with the data that is in PODID.


I assume you understand the basics of file declaration so I won't bore you with that
you need a key field for the logical file
looks like
      KEYNAME            KLST
                                   Kfld                                       Blah   (where blah is a field that both files have)
You can have multiple fields in this list

Set the first file as  "IF"

then the code is
                              

*loval      setll      file1
                   dou        %eof(file1)
                   Read       File1
 
       KEYNAME     chain      Logical
                   if         %found(logical)
                   eval       POD40= PODID
                   update     LOGICAL FILE RECORD NAME
 
                   enddo

                                              
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by: IKDISTPosted on 2009-12-02 at 09:23:44ID: 25954312

the code is formatted terrible but it should work

 

by: murphey2Posted on 2010-01-08 at 08:31:22ID: 26211267

Hi Bolton Wanderer,
The solusion from is good, I would prefer a DOW instead a DOU because then the loop ends on EOF
and no other EOF test is needed (see example IKDIST)

BTW the diference between DOW and DOU is the place where the condition is tested
DOU is tested at the end so will allways be execute the loop once
DOW is tested at the begining and will not run the loop if the condition is not met.

Regards,
Murph

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