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So what do you people recommend for backing up all those multi-member source
files? Or do you keep each source member in a separate file?

----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: SAVCHGOBJ (was APYJRNCHG)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: barsa@barsaconsulting.com <barsa@barsaconsulting.com>
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:54 AM
> Subject: RE: SAVCHGOBJ (was APYJRNCHG)
>
>
> >
> >IMHO, the guys at IBM that figured out multi-membered files were having
an
> >off day.  Furthermore, the users that relied on such a thing were
> >snuckedered down the primrose path.
>
> I agree with the path thingy, but I think members were a great idea. It's
> just that early on, no language outside of CL could deal with them. Then
> PL/I came along and accepted member names in the language. Later, when C
was
> added, it too could deal with them.
>
> The concept is elegant. One physical description, with distinct packages
of
> data. Just does not translate to other systems and seems difficult for
> people coming from other systems to understand at first.
>
> But today, with cheaper dasd, it's just an architectural relic, and as we
> have been mentioning, a bugaboo for save/restore.
>
> >With the exception of manufacturing packages, the multi-membering of data
> >files really never took off, and SQL never recognized it's existence.
>
> Well, partially. We have aliases now that can access various members...
but
> it's really a retro-fit.
>
>
> ===========================================================
> R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
>  -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
>  -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer
>
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>
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