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Relational Navigation: Backward Pointers

Records reached via backward POINTERs appear to the user much like subrecords within a Multiple. To display the records in the pointing file, you can define a repeating block that has a DD Number property equal to the file number of the pointing file and an Index property equal to the name of the whole file cross-reference of the POINTER field.

REF: For more information on how to define repeating blocks, see the "Displaying Multiples in Repeating Blocks" section.

Reviewed/Updated: May 2026