Re: PF File Definition questions...

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr" <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: PaulMmn <PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Sunday, October 24, 1999 2:37 AM
Subject: Re: PF File Definition questions...


>> Views are unkeyed logical files....
>
>
>Huh?  Now I'm confused...   There's no -point- in having and unkeyed
logical.
>
>The Key is the index sequence.  Gotta have one.
>


No, you don't. A view is another way of looking at the data. In SQL, the
index may be built for the query or you may just want arrival sequence of
the file. The purpose of the view (keyed or not) is to provide either a
different order of fields, a different mapping of fields, changing
attributes of a field or subsetting the list of fields that are "viewed"
through the file.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

"The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant.
    It's the population that keeps growing!"



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