SFLRNA (Subfile Records Not Active) keyword for display files

You use this record-level keyword with the Subfile Initialize (SFLINZ) keyword on the subfile-control record format so that your program can initialize a subfile with no active records. To do this, your program sends an output operation to the subfile-control record format with the SFLINZ keyword selected.

The subfile itself becomes active. Subfile records are not considered active unless one of the following conditions occurs:

Your program sends an output operation to the subfile record format, placing data in one of the subfile records. The subfile record becomes active but is not considered changed unless the SFLNXTCHG keyword is also in effect.
After your program displays the subfile, the workstation user types data into subfile records. The records typed in become active and changed.

This keyword has no parameters.

SFLRNA is normally used so that a program can write some records to the subfile before displaying it, and the workstation user can then add records to the subfile.

When your program displays a subfile initialized with the SFLINZ and SFLRNA keywords in effect, fields in inactive records have the following values:

Character fields are blank.
Numeric fields are zero-filled.
An input-only field with a constant value specified has the constant value.

Your program cannot send an input operation to an inactive subfile record. Issuing a get-next-changed operation to one of the subfile records returns the record only when the record has become active and has been changed.

Your program cannot send output operations to active records (SFLRNA not specified). It must send update operations. Also, your program cannot send update operations to inactive records (SFLRNA specified). It must send output operations.

The SFLINZ keyword is required when SFLRNA is specified.

SFLRNA cannot be specified for a message subfile (identified by the SFLMSGRCD keyword on the subfile record format).

If the subfile record format contains field selection, SFLRNA is not valid.

Option indicators are not valid for this keyword.

Example

The following example shows how to specify the SFLRNA keyword.

|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
00010A          R SFLR                      SFL
     A*
     A*           (at least one displayable field)
     A*
00040A          R SFLCTLR                   SFLCTL(SFLR)
00050A                                      SFLPAG(17)
00060A                                      SFLSIZ(17)
00070A                                      SFLDSP SFLDSPCTL
00080A                                      SFLINZ
00090A                                      SFLRNA
     A