deleting after create

[rtamma]

i have to read from a dataset and write into a new dataset. I do a find next on the first dataset to find the record and write it to the newdataset. After writing to the dataset i have to delte the record from the old dataset. How do i do that. If i delete it immediatly after writing it into the new dataset will the find next work to get the next record as i have deleted the record . please clarify.

Thanks
rt

 

[Dimandja]

According to my COBOL documentation, DELETE will not affect the file position indicator: your READ NEXT will correctly obtain the next record after the one deleted.

Dimandja

 

thanks