DETAILS Updating a record during a PROCESS RECORD ... INDEXED BY ... can result in a loop because the index entry is rewritten to the end of the index being processed. EXAMPLE PROGRAM retrieval update process record employee indexed by name via ("Mary Black") compute salary = salary + 1 write name salary end record end retrieval WORKAROUND If the index is UNIQUE then the EXIT REC workaround will work but otherwise only the first matching record will be updated before the EXIT REC. For non unique indexes you could process the indexed records twice, the first time just counting how many records there are (no updating) then the second process records would do the EXIT RECORD once that many records had been processed.