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Pete, Booth At 8/11/01 05:57 PM -0500, you wrote: >At 12:53 08/11/2001, Booth Martin wrote: > >>Can I build a Logical file over a physical file in QS36F? The physical >>file is a program-described file and I am wondering about creating a >>logical over it with the actual field descriptions and then use the >>logical as an Externally described file? > >You can create a logical, but you'll need derive the key fields as >substrings of the alpha dataspace - do a dspffd on the s/36 file to see >what I mean. The entire record will be defined as one field, unless it >also has keys, in which case those will be split out as separate fields. >You could also use the s36ee bldindex procedure, which will do the dirty >work for you, and end up creating just such a logical. There is another solution. Create DDS for the file and make it externally described. This will *not* affect existing 36EE programs. But you can then create any regular *LF over it. -mark
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