I would like to illustrate an alternative to Kenneth Fordham's suggestion in

"Forcing Records to Disk" (TechTalk, MC, December 1994) and Rick Brandl's

suggestion in "Forcing Records to Disk, Part II" (TechTalk, MC, March 1995).

Instead of using the FRCRATIO parameter of the Create Physical File (CRTPF),

Change Physical File (CHGPF), or Override Database File (OVRDBF) commands to

force records to disk, use the RPG force-end-of-data (FEOD) operation as

illustrated in 1.

illustrated in Figure 1.

The FEOD operation allows you to force to disk all changes your program makes

to a file. Normally, the system determines when to force changes to disk; use

the FEOD operation in an RPG program to ensure that changes are forced to disk.

--Helmut Salzer

Forcing Records to Disk, Part III

Figure 1Forcing Records to Disk with the FEOD Operation

 *. 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ...+... 7 C WRITERECORD C FEOD FILEX