The REWRITE statement executed without a READ does not update the record set by the MOVE to its key.

When executed in a sequence of MOVE key 1, READ, REWRITE, MOVE key 2, REWRITE, the second REWRITE still works on the previously read record.

This used to work fine up to Acu4GL 10.4.1, and still works fine in 10.5.0 on the VISION file system.

It fails using 10.5.0 Acu4GL for MSSQL. 

Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013550