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  • Subject: RE: Same field names
  • From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:12:26 -0500

Prefix the fields with unique 2 or 3 character prefixes in the files
themselves.  I did a short stint at a company that did what your company did
and it was pure hell.  They didn't even prefix in the RPG programs.

So, when they were reading through one file, and chained to another, they
would have to save the key values of the previous file and chain back to
"reposition" after they were done.  It was a nightmare.

Bradley V. Stone
Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst   
bvstone@taylorcorp.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Berendt [SMTP:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 9:46 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Same field names
> 
> Not to start a holy war, but here goes...
> 
> Our accounting package uses the same field names in all of their files.
> For example in the 
> files EMPNAM, EMPJOB, etc, the employee number field is EMPLY.  Prior to
> RPG ILE, this was 
> a minor pain because you had to rename all the fields by hand.  With ILE
> RPG you just use 
> the PREFIX keyword and the rename is done quick.  But, here is the cool
> part.  Query the 
> file QADBIFLD on your system and you can see every file containing this
> field.  Since this 
> file is 1.4GB on our system I thought I'd might as well use it.
> 
> So what do you think of using the same names?  How about requiring
> database field names be 
> limited to 7 or 8 characters so the PREFIX keyword is cleaner?
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