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Thanks to everyone.

I do have a project to merge all of the tables into a single table. Legacy code, especially queries, are going to be a pain.


I definitely need to get into SQL more; I pull out Conte and Cravitz's book whenever there's down time. I use pretty simple statements, such as Select and Update, frequently but need to become better versed in the subject. I'll read up on the Union as soon as possible.


Scott's solution for legacy code was what I was trying to do, except that I had defined multiple record formats, such as

   R   FORMATR   PFILE(PF1)
   K   KEY
   R   FORMATR   PFILE(PF2)
   K   KEY


Which was the way the DDS manual and InfoCenter both illustrated it. But their examples were merging, say, an Order Header and Order Details, not identical tables. The DDS compiler choked on that, obviously.


Again, thanks.

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John Candidi wrote:

Not sure how many files are in each library and not sure of the size of your
files so this may not be an option, but I have some files like that that I
wrote a query for that appends the file for one year to another year and I
write the year to the beginning of each file. In the end, I have one big
file with multiple years. Of course, you can always create a view across the
years like someone mentioned

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Subject: Merging Files

We have separate libraries for each year's history. In order to perform inquiries across multiple years rather than multi-defining each PF in the program (which, honestly, is what I have been doing), I would like to read them as a single file.



These tables have the same identical layout (fields, format names, file names); just in different libraries. I tried using a multiple format LF but, naturally, it blew off because the record format names are the same.



Is there any way to read these two physical files via a single file statement, or am I just spinning my wheels in the sand here?




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