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I'm home now so I can't do a DSPFFD on the two objects but I remember that
the field lengths and types were all the same. No dates or varying fields.
How else could I have avoided OPNQRYF? Surely not a cursor in the RPG
program?

2012/6/8 CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>

On 08 Jun 2012 02:54, Dave wrote:

I wanted to avoid using OPNQRYF and did this:

CREATE TABLE QTEMP/mytable AS
(SELECT * FROM myfile ORDER BY myfield)
WITH DATA
RCDFMT myfile_formatname

Making a full permanent [irrespective of "QTEMP"] copy of the data
into QTEMP, just to create an ordered copy :-( Sometimes avoidance
should be avoided ;-)

But the format levels of mytable and myfile are not the same,
despite using RCDFMT.
Why?

That depends... on what is the exact definition and origins of
MYFILE. One example, defaults and identity attributes would not be
included in the new TABLE using the given syntax.

Regards, Chuck
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