Program walks FILE2 until a section marker, then needs to walk FILE1 from the top again for each marker. First pass works. Second pass A010 because FILE1 is already at EOF.
Can you CLOSE and reopen in Easytrieve, or am I stuck with three DDs pointing at the same DSN?
On 11.x there is CLOSE. JOB INPUT NULL, GET until EOF, CLOSE file, GET again. Does not work on old 6.x / compatibility mode.
Otherwise load FILE1 into an OCCURS table once and reuse it. Multiple DDs to the same DSN works but looks ugly in reviews.
We went the array route. Student guide examples only show JanFebMar packed into one string so I thought arrays were useless for records. Coworker showed OCCURS of a record layout. That was the missing piece.
Loaded the table. Way cleaner than three DDs. Thanks.
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