Re: Editing Files

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henrik,

>If you will continue to use your S/36-system you will have to
>do it at some time 
>anyway. 'First need to edit' is as good time to do this as any.

The obvious problem with this is in continuing to use the S/36
environment.  On the S/36 it was common to delete and recreate files
instead of clearing them.  It obviously is better on the 400 to
replace this with use of CLRPFM, but then you're looking at OCL
changes at a minimum, and potentially RPG II changes if a file is
created as an Output file instead of appending using Output Add.

These changes aren't hard, and really should be done anyway since a
delete/recreate is expensive on the AS/400 (relative to the S/36).
But the point is that the externally described file could revert back
to a flat file in normal operations unless the application is changed
too.

Perhaps the delete cache option they added to the S36EE takes care of
this problem now?  I haven't tried it.

Doug
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