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I strongly suggest that the original
>>poster try the dynamic SQL before
throwing it out as a poor performer.
>>It may run pitifully slow too,

Nah. CHAIN/UPDATE performs better
> than single-record dynamic SQL
UPDATE. Period.

A quick test on my machine shows that I can use prepare...execute and update 50k records in about 20 seconds, which may be _good_enough_ for this database design and this problem.

It took me under an hour to assemble the test environment and code from scratch and that included the database definitions and populating the files. I'm no SQL guru - I use RPG for virtually everything.

I stand by my statement that trying the SQL solution is better than summarily throwing it out without trying it at all.
  --buck

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