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<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"">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.
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
<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"">What am I not understanding of how parallel linkage should work?<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""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Thanx</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Lorry Litman</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Application Management</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="mailto:llitman@manitoba-ehealth.ca"><span style="color:windowtext">llitman@manitoba-ehealth.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">204-926-9076</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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