Re: Seeking adivce

>>> See below...

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:39:19 -0700, Tony Carolla wrote:
> Are you copying from the application's file into the one in QTEMP?

>>> Yes, basically, when they do a write to their file, I also do a
write to mine.

> In my experience, I find it best to go against the actual data files,
> and build your own report based on that.  Sometimes, since we rarely
> have source code for vendor's products, it is unclear exactly how they
> handle work files.  If you can get at the data directly, and do the
> calcs in your program, you might have more luck with the problem.

>>> I know, but the problem here is, there is a number of ways this
program could be run, I didn't want to have to "reinvent the wheel"
just to print the exact same thing. This work file told me exacty what
POs to print, I just wrote the logic to print them at this point then.
Luckly, I do have access to the source, we just don't get support for
modifying it... imagine that... :-)
 
> a file in QTEMP is a solution that works well, but sometimes it is
> better to use an array (depending on the number of records/size of
> each element) for the sake of speed.

>>> I thought about an array, but I don't know how many POs might be
processed. It might be one, it might be hundreds. Maybe a data area
would be better, or maybe there is something I don't know about that I
could use. I am up to try anything, I just want to try an eliminate
this problem we have now (and maybe learn something as well).

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