how obtain command in IDMS works

rajesh_kota · New User Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Posts: 10 Location: chennai

Can anyone help me to understand this code?

OBTAIN BRIDGE-R WITHIN BRIDGE-FROM-I
USING SBD-BRIDGE-FROM-KEY
ON ANY-STATUS
OBTAIN NEXT BRIDGE-R WITHIN BRIDGE-FROM-I.

Is this is fetching one by one record?

why obtain next is used after the initial obtain statement?

please help me in this regard.

vijayakumar.yellala · New User Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 47 Location: Chennai

see in first Obtain statement they fetching the perticular record vlaue with key field. from that they are fetching one by one at the end of the set.

Ace · New User Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Delhi

Generally obtain next is used after the first obtain statement...In ths case obtain next until end of set...