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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

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