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  3. September 2005

RE: Subprocedure Question

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:45, Joel Fritz wrote:
> I'm thinking of a file with ten logical views and imagine implementing
> random I/0 and selective updates.
> 
> RPG is just not designed to make this easy, even with a generator API.

No problem if you use embedded SQL: for selects, you can pass in the
where clause and/or key list for retrieval. And you can add code to the
update procedure to only update fields that have changed or the field
list you pass in.  Quite flexible.

Joel Cochran
http://www.rpgnext.com

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