Re: QADBXREF & CL

["Joe Teff" <jteff19@xxxxxxx>]

To see all of the fields for a file, why not use the system catalog
QADBIFLD?
It's an externally defined file. You may have to recompile a program at
some point in the future. API's would protect you from that, but cannot be
easier or faster.

> I can remember when IBM introduced the concept of security states for
> objects a few years ago. Boy did that screw things up for anyone going
> behind the covers to access information> Thankfully most good stuff is
> now available through API's. The lesson was simple: Internal objects and
> methods are subject to change without notice. If you've got alternatives
> why create possible future problems.


>> Why do you say "MUCH safer than going after the IBM internal xref
>> files"?  I would think that this is the safest and fastest!

>>> the member name...so unless there are no members in the file, it
>>> should work...be a lot easyier than API's and MUCH safer than going
>>> after the IBM internal xref files

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