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  • Subject: Re: RPG SPECAIAL files -- anybody used them?
  • From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 8:23:17 -0500

If you are using ILE RPG, I'd recommend the PREFIX keyword on your external 
file 
datastructures to rename your fields into unique names.





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David,

I suspect you will be saying the same thing about TCP/IP sockets very
soon.  After a bit of experience, it will become your "protocol of
choice".

Re substituting data structures for the records, that was the method I
was going to use.  But the idiot who wrote this program 6 years ago
(me), did not use unique field names.  That tends the croak the DS's.
And break a lot of code.

When I tripped over the SPECIAL file, I when "Ureake (sp?)"!  It sure
looks like an easy way around my problem.

I am working on it right now and hope to know by Tomorrow how feasible
it is.  Don't you just love deadlines?  And this is the worst kind.
Self inflicted!

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs <david@midrange.com>
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Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: RPG SPECAIAL files -- anybody used them?


>At 10:41 AM 6/4/99 , you wrote:
>>I am getting ready to convert a rather large RPG APPC program over to
>>TCP/IP sockets.  The IP part is a piece of cake.
>
>Relatively speaking :)
>
>>However, the record formats are not.
>
>Actually, they aren't that difficult.  I'm in the process of finishing
up a
>similar project... and we just substituted data structures for the
record
>formats.
>
>My comms routines have to do both APPC and TCP/IP, so the data
structures
>work well.
>
>david
>
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