re SAVCHGOBJ (was APYJRNCHG)

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From: barsa@barsaconsulting.com <barsa@barsaconsulting.com>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: RE: SAVCHGOBJ (was APYJRNCHG)


>
>IMHO, the guys at IBM that figured out multi-membered files were having an
>off day.  Furthermore, the users that relied on such a thing were
>snuckedered down the primrose path.
>
>With the exception of manufacturing packages, the multi-membering of data
>files really never took off, and SQL never recognized it's existence.
>
>The remainder of the System/38-AS/400-iSeries architecture never recognized
>it's existence, and in logical form, SAVCHGOBJ was not a good solution for
>a multi-membered environment.
>
>Al
>

Allowing multiple members in a file make the source physical file possible.
Worthwhile if just for that reason.

A way to explain members:  File members are separate files that share the
rcdfmt and file description of the owning file.

Steve Richter