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  3. March 2008

Re: Is there a way to detect if a file is "externally described"?

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
I have understood that a traditional AS/400 file can be either externally described, or not. (I can see externally described files as tables with JDBC, the others not).
Is there a way to check programmatically before hand?

You could use the ObjectDescription object to retrieve attributes about the file ... if it has a SOURCE_FILE attached to it, it's probably externally described.

I just ran a quick test ... a source physical file returned a source file of blank, while a true externally described file returned the actual source file that contained the DDS.

david


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