Extract Utility User's Guide - Supra - Cincom

⎡low-rrn⎤⎢⎥RRN - RANGE (⎢- high-rrn⎥)⎣⎢low-rrn - high-rrn⎦⎥RestrictionsDescriptionFormat♦♦Do not use with key-sequenced data sets.You can use this statement only after a QUALIFIER (SERIAL) statement for arelated file. In all other cases, it is invalid.Optional. Indicates a range of relative record numbers you want retrieved. Thefunction does not retrieve records outside the range you code.1–9 decimal characters for each rrnOptions low-rrn Retrieves records having RRNs from low-rrn through the endof the file.Considerations-high-rrnlow-rrn–high-rrn♦♦♦Retrieves records having RRNs from the beginning of the fileto high-rrn.Retrieves records having RRNs from low-rrn through high-rrn.If the low-rrn you code is not a valid data record, the function accesses thefirst data record with a higher RRN than the one you coded.If you are extracting a related file and the RRN you code is in the middle ofa chain, the function does not extract prior records on that chain.If you code the RRN-RANGE statement, you must put it before any RECORDstatement.Extract Utility User's Guide, P25-9513-03 39Chapter: 5. Coding the Extract functionSection: Coding the UCL for the Extract function