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  • Subject: Re: Another V5R1 query... Qualified DSs
  • From: Gary Guthrie <GaryGuthrie@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 17:59:51 -0500

Brad,

I can make a few comments with respect to using QUALIFIED vs. PREFIX.

1) Qualified is more standard
2) Qualified helps prevent the possibility of collisions. For example, a
subfield with field name Address prefixed with Cust would result in a
field named CustAddress. It's possible you could try to create a
standalone field named CustAddress. I realize this is no biggie, but...
3) Qualified hopefully opens the door to such operations as COBOL's Move
Corresponding in which all fields of the same name within two structures
are candidates for copy from the source structure to the target
structure- that would be great.

Gary Guthrie
NEWS/400 Technical Editor
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