Re: DDS Support (Re: NT web server access to AS400)

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From: <jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 16:30
Subject: Re: DDS Support (Re: NT web server access to AS400)


> Reference with type casting.
>
> D    Invoice        7  0 Text('Invoice Number')
>
>
> D    AAAINV    R    7    REFFLD(Invoice *SRC)
>
>
>
> AAAINV is still and instance of Invoice however this particular instance
is
> Alpha.  And other capabilities like this.

Jon,

Interesting, and dangerous.

I've never tried this on anything other than a display file. Is this valid
for a LF over the PF, or simply for another PF? Is the resulting LF update
capable? (SQL views provide type casting)

> Can you do a CREATE TABLE with fields referencing a definition in another
> table?

As has been mentioned several times through this thread - no you can't. I
thought we were at the point where we were saying "Ok. A dictionary takes
care of the field reference problem. What else have we got?".


Regards,

John Taylor
Canada

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