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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">The syntax below from John solves the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">Clearly a bug issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">As soon as I took client_num (field to link to) off the second link statement powerhouse recognized the linkage and displayed the following<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">Access EXP_CLIENT viaindex CLIENT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">CLIENT is the index name on both ACT_CLIENT and EXP_CLIENT which is the field CLIENT_NUM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">Thank-you everyone for your support and suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">This list and members on it have never disappointed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">Lorry Litman</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Pickering, John (NORBORD) [mailto:John.Pickering@norbord.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 05, 2015 9:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lorry Litman; PowerHouse listserver<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: quiz parallel linkage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">I had a similar issue with parallel linkage. It was solved with a workaround for bug 401877 by Mary Pilgrim at Cognos. I’m running on an HP3000 but maybe the underlying code is the same?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Try taking the explicit linkage out of the second side of the parallel linkage. As in:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">ACC ACCOUNTS LINK ACCT_NUM &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">TO CLIENT_NUM OF ACT_CLIENT OPT &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">AND TO EXP_CLIENT OPT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">This was Mary’s suggestion and it solved my problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">JWP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:powerh-l-bounces+john.pickering=norbord.com@lists.sowder.com">powerh-l-bounces+john.pickering=norbord.com@lists.sowder.com</a> [<a href="mailto:powerh-l-bounces+john.pickering=norbord.com@lists.sowder.com">mailto:powerh-l-bounces+john.pickering=norbord.com@lists.sowder.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lorry Litman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 05, 2015 9:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> PowerHouse listserver<br>
<b>Subject:</b> quiz parallel linkage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">I’m not getting the results I’m expecting from this parallel linkage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">VMS 7.3-2 PH 7.10G1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">This involves 3 RMS indexed files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Accounts, Act_client, Exp_client<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Act_client and Exp_client are identical files/record structure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Acct_num and client_num are both num * 9.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Acct_num should be found in one of act_client or exp_client. Yes, it’s possible in rare situations it’s not found in either, but that’s a different issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">ACC ACCOUNTS LINK ACCT_NUM &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">TO CLIENT_NUM OF ACT_CLIENT OPT &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">AND TO CLIENT_NUM OF EXP_CLIENT OPT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">If the acct_num exists in act_client info is found/reported<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">If acct_num exists in exp_client info is not found/reported<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">If I reverse the access statement and have exp_client as the first link and then act_client second I get the reverse result of the above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">If I link to each file individually it will find it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">I’ve tried optional on the first linkage only, the second linkage only or both and no different result.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">What am I not understanding of how parallel linkage should work?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Thanx</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Lorry Litman</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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