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This RCP specifies that the IDF data is to be read without "looping". Normally when a Tables Stage is executed, the records are read in batches of a convenient size, and the code executed in chunks of a convenient size for each batch of data. One side effect of this is that you cannot be sure of the contents of your tables until the run is finished.

Normally this does not matter, but sometimes it is necessary to test the contents of tables as they are incremented (in the same stage). In order to do this, RCP NOLOOP must be set.

IMPORTANT: MT (manip table) commands and IF commands which test the values of table cells using tables incremented in the same tables stage will not work correctly unless NOLOOP is set.

NOLOOP only takes effect during the execution of Tables Stages. "Looping" does not occur in Data and Manip Stages.