Re: QNTC -- MIDRANGE-L

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Just a turn of phrase.  We can do some great things with Query but the
powers that be won't spring for RPG training...

Steven Donnellan
AS/400 Systems Manager
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Professional Operator
Simon Jersey Ltd

http://www.simonjersey.com




Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@att.net>
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Steven
why are you stuck with Query?

Steven Donnellan wrote:

>If only I could program in RPG <sigh>
>I'm stuck with QUERY/400...
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>Steven Donnellan
>AS/400 Systems Manager
>IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Professional Operator
>Simon Jersey Ltd
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>http://www.simonjersey.com
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>jpcarr@tredegar.com
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> > CPYF FROM(MYLIB/MYDBF) TO (QNTC/MYNTSERVER/MYDBF.TXT) FIELDS
>(*FIXEDLENGTH)
> >The idea is to put some databases on an NT server so that MS Access can
> >play about with them, without the long long wait associated with ODBC.
>The
> >databases are created over night, so real time access isn't an issue.
> >Steven Donnellan
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>Personal opinion,  If you just want to write a Fixed Length .TXT file to
>directory
>QNTC/MYNTSERVER    I would do it from RPGIV.  Very Easy.  That way you
>would
>have control and do other things like Reading One file,  Chaining to
>another
>format the output fields in what ever order you wanted easily.
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>The one thing I see wrong with CPY (and all variations) is that you have
>to
>do gymnastics to get the Source file right to do the copy.   With RPG,  I
>can
>leave all the info in my Normalized files and just read/chain, etc to
>format the
>output record and write directly to a PC file format.  No intermediate
>work
>file
>to get it there.
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>I have many Production programs that do this exact thing.  Mostly to a
>.CSV
>file
>which people then access via Excel.   I even have an exit routine in
>certain
>Add/Change/Delete file maintenance programs to write the file to the IFS
>upon exit
>  if any record was changed.  This way my DB2 file is always in sync with
>my
>PC file on the IFS.
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>I will be showing this Technique at COMMON in one of my sessions.
>
>John Carr
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Regards,


Glenn
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