Bruce,

Using the printed page numbers (not the adobe reader page), in the 1997 
manual that I supplies a link to, it states:
http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01704333/c01704333.pdf 


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Page 4-30, see table 4-3,
Directed reads (DBGET calls) These are not recommended in a shared 
environment. Lock the data set before determining which data entry is 
needed.
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Page 6-11,
* NOTE: that the record number is first obtained using a DBGET
* call, which in this case is a calculated mode 7.
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Page 6-33,
The saved record number is then used as the argument value for a call to 
DBGET in mode 4.
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What page is your comment below on? I could not find anything to that 
effect in the manual myself.. ;-)
Bruce Hobbs Explains:

The only profitable result I ever found from such a "blind" access was reading record 
number one in order to initialize a dataset list at the beginning of a program.


BTW: Does anyone know of a more up-to-date Image manual, maybe one that 
shows all the new features of DBGET?


Michael.

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