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Simon, At 11:02 PM 2/5/98 +1100, you wrote: >That's not quite what I said. My suggestion is to use OPNQRYF to present the data to the program in >the form requested. I would use native I/O to read the OPNQRYF ODP. I believe the update is to a >second file (a proper database file) for which the updates can be done with native I/O or SQL/400. > >My understanding of the original append is that PC data is being dumped into a flat file which is >processed and written to a DB2/400 file. > >While Query/400 will use an already open ODP (which can cause immense confusion) I'm pretty sure SQL >ignores the shared override. It does acknowledge the OVRDBF command but ignores the SHARE parameter. > >Note that the OPNQRYF *ZONED operator is different from the SQL ZONED function. The *ZONED operator >will accept character data provided the length of the character data is the same as the zoned >representation and the character data can be interpreted as numbers. OK, that's how I originally understood it. -mark +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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