POSRFA

Restore the saved position in an ISAM file

WSupported on Windows

USupported on Unix

VSupported on OpenVMS

NSupported in Synergy .NET

The POSRFA routine is deprecated; we recommend that instead you use the RFA qualifier on I/O statements such as READ, FIND, STORE, and so forth. Specifying a GRFA using the POSRFA routine is not supported. You must use the RFA: qualifier with FIND or READ.

xcall POSRFA(channel, rfa[, krf])

Arguments

channel

The number of the open channel. (n)

rfa

The previously saved file position (as returned by the deprecated GETRFA subroutine) that will be restored. (a6)

krf

(optional) The key of reference. (n)

Discussion

POSRFA works in conjunction with the deprecated GETRFA routine. Once the current position in an ISAM file has been saved using GETRFA, POSRFA can restore that position. Synergy DBL stores the file position returned from GETRFA in binary form to be used as the rfa argument to POSRFA.

The contents of rfa are a special binary value and must be preserved. Be careful in doing assignments or moving the contents into another variable.

If the record at a saved position has been deleted, you’ll get an “Invalid record’s file address” error ($ERR_INVALRFA) on OpenVMS. If an RFA refers to a deleted record, a “Deleted record” error ($ERR_DELREC) will be generated when a read is attempted.

If the channel is opened to an ISAM file and you don’t specify krf, the POSRFA subroutine sets the key of reference to the primary key. All subsequent I/O operations access that key until it is explicitly changed by a READ, a FIND, or another call to POSRFA.

On OpenVMS, if you specify a nonzero krf value, Synergy DBL generates an “Invalid operation for file type” error ($ERR_FILOPT). You can use the POSRFA subroutine on any file type. The rfa variable must be declared as data type a6.

See also

RFA qualifier

Examples

The following subroutine creates a temporary tag file to sort data from an ISAM file that is in a nonkey field. It reads through the file searching for records with a nonblank entry in the nonkey field. It then creates a temporary tag file and saves the RFA position of the ISAM file and the nonblank field. It sorts the temporary file using the nonblank field as the sort key, then extracts the appropriate records from the ISAM file in sorted order to pass to a print subroutine.

subroutine report
.define ISMCHN          ,10
.define TAGCHN          ,11
.define TAGFILE ,"tagfile"
record ism_rec
    key                 ,a10
    ism_fld             ,a5
record tag_rec
    tag_rfa             ,a6
    tag_sort            ,a5
proc
    open(ISMCHN, i:i, "isam")
    open(TAGCHN, o, TAGFILE)
    repeat
      begin
        reads(ISMCHN, ism_rec, done1, GETRFA:tag_rfa)
        if (ism_fld)
          begin
            tag_sort = ism_fld
            puts(TAGCHN, tag_rec)
          end
      end
done1,
    close TAGCHN
    sort(input=TAGFILE, key=tag_sort, record=tag_rec, options="recsize=11/e")
    open(TAGCHN, i, TAGFILE)
    repeat
      begin
        gets(TAGCHN, tag_rec, done2)
        xcall posrfa(ISMCHN, tag_rfa)
        reads(ISMCHN, ism_rec)
        xcall print_it(ism_rec)
      end
done2,
    close TAGCHN
    close ISMCHN
    xreturn
endsubroutine