Hi,
never amend T24 file from a back-end unless you're absolutely sure
what you're doing...

Instead use OFS.

VK

On May 29, 3:10 am, Jim Idle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jose L wrote:Hi Jim, Thank you for your help. I know I can use JED, but I'd 
> like to update a large number of records (about 300,000), and definitely I 
> don't want to do it automatically. How can I use SQL in Jbase? You say I need 
> to have the file defined? defined where and how?For a one off operation, that 
> is way more work than you could possibly want to do.
> Why not write a small jBC program? You could have written and run it by now 
> ;-) Or, if you are feeling adventurous and dangerous, learn about the P 
> command in ED.
> t.b
> OPEN "File" TO File ELSE ABORT 201, "File"
> LOOP WHILE READNEXT ID DO
>  READ Rec FROM File, ID ELSE CONTINUE
> Rec<7> = "" ;* Replace 7 with correct attr or a reference to SENTENCE
>  WRITE Rec on FILE ID
> REPEAT
> jcompile t.b -o t
> SELECT File WITH etc. etc.
> 300,000 Records selected
> >./t
> JimThank you very much. Jose On 28 mayo, 18:40, Jim 
> Idle<[email protected]>wrote:Jose L wrote:Hi,    Is there any way to 
> update a record using a command in jShell? Something like this:UPDATE 
> F.SECURITY.MASTER SET RATING = ''I think that was using their command line 
> SQL stuff.> In Universe it was possible, but in Jbase it says:jsh miasmi01 ~ 
> -->UPDATE F.SECURITY.MASTER SET RATING = '' Error in Statement "UPDATE 
> F.SECURITY.MASTER SET RATING = ''" Parse Error: ..Someone knows how to do 
> it?jed F.SECURITY.MASTER recordId Change the attribute you need (CT DICT 
> F.SECURITY.MASTER RATING   to find out which attribute).This the information 
> from out Jbase version.RELEASE Information         : Major 4.1 , Minor 5.17 , 
> Patch 5690 (Change 52756)You may  have command line SQL available, but it 
> won't help unless the file is defined and so on I think. Jim

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