RE: SFLINZ (or) SFLCLR

With a user index, you can use the APIs or use the C/400 functional interface. 
Effectively the C interface is MI, but its a little easier to use control logic 
with C. With C you can also get at the associated space of the User Index. This 
allows you to use the Index to store the "key" to your data, and then store the 
data in the associated space via some kind of offset or link-list algorithm. 
That's what Message Files (*MSGF) are.

Bob Cozzi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net
> [SMTP:mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net]On Behalf Of Bruce
> Guetzkow
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 1997 8:32 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: SFLINZ (or) SFLCLR
> 
> 
> I've used User Indexes for some time now and have _never_ needed to 
> use MI to access it.  All I have ever used is the APIs.  They're just 
> another option...not the only answer, and not always the _best_ 
> answer.  (We've really gotten far afield of the original post, haven't we?)
> --Bruce
> 
> ----------
> From:         Walden Leverich[SMTP:walden@techsoftinc.com]
> Sent:         Tuesday, November 25, 1997 8:17 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: SFLINZ (or) SFLCLR
> 
> True, but unless I've missed a recent API, you would then need to write a MI
> program to use the index. I've often looked at user indices but backed off
> them because of the MI. It's not that I don't like MI, but usually it's not
> worth the effort.
> 
> -Walden
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Guetzkow <bguetzkow@highsmith.com>
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 10:36 AM
> Subject: RE: SFLINZ (or) SFLCLR
> 
> 
> >Interesting idea...you could do the same thing with a user index, too!
> >--Bruce
> >
> >----------
> >From: James W. Kilgore[SMTP:qappdsn@ibm.net]
> >Sent: Monday, November 24, 1997 1:15 PM
> >To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> >Subject: Re: SFLINZ (or) SFLCLR
> >
> >
> >
> >Bruce Guetzkow wrote:
> >
> >> And you're right...subfiles are neat!  (If only they could be keyed...)
> >

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