Re: FTP Externally Described Files

I think what you lose is the FORMAT.

The format can be defined with DDS but
still remains a mysterious object(?) to me,
very familiar but mysterious.

I know that there were some stumbling blocks
for IBM to implement SQL on the AS/400 due
to the file relation to the format.

Dan Jahr
AS/400 Analyst
Lawson Software







Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com> on 01/19/2000 09:30:50 AM

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DDS stands for Data Definition Specifications, doesn't it?

And isn't that what is being lost?  The Data Definition Specifications
for the file.  Of course, there are DDS source files too.   Which I
put in a file called QDDDSSRC, not QDDS 8-)

Technically, DDS may not be the correct term for the external
file description, but  isn't it?  It sounds right to me.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Rob Berendt wrote:

> Why do people refer to the definitions in an externally described file
> as DDS?  I thought DDS was source specifications.  I've worked with people
> who wouldn't look at the DSPFFD, or similar utilities - even if the DDS
> had been deleted.  Also, I've created many files with SQL instead of DDS,
> (although I am rethinking that strategy).
>

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