RE: File field descriptions -- MIDRANGE-L

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>You could always query the file QADBIFLD.  IBM built this on V3R2 to store
>every field in every file.  You create a file and this automatically gets
>updated.  The reason for this is that Client developers didn't want to mess
>with outfiles or API's.

I generally refer people to SYSCOLUMNS instead of the underlying physical.
It's an SQL thing.  WRKF SYS* and check out
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/index.htm?info/db2
/rbafzmstcatalog.htm (or search the InfoCentre for SYSTABLES.  The second
hit was Appendix G of the DB2 manual.)

Buck 
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