How to insert a new record between two existing records in a physical file?

[Rohitha]

Hi,

I would like to add a new record into a file at a desired location. How do i achieve this?

A simple write would insert records but in this case they get added at the end. But if it is required to insert a new record in between the 2nd and the 3rd record then

I came across this issue when i was trying to change the source of an RPG pgm..... by copying the source into a SRCPF.

Thanks

[Niraj]

I don't know exactly how we can insert a record in file, in b/w two records. However, I think we can achieve it in following steps
1. Determine the position where we need to insert the record. say rrn = n
2. Copy n to end of file in a temp file.
3. Delete n to end of file.
4. Write our new record.
5. Copy back data from the temp file.

This doesn't look like a decent way though.

Loud thinking- Can we do something by tweaking the sequence number of the source file?