RE: Column stripping

["Joe Giusto" <jgiusto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Add to this, you could create a program that presents a list of fields from
the physical file and then create the LF source file based on selected
fields.  Then compile the logical file in QTEMP and do your CPYF.

Curious why you do not want to use SQL (we have a little freebie EXCSQLSTM
that I copied from a magazine years ago).


 -----Original Message-----
From:   midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com]  On Behalf Of Dennis Lovelady
Sent:   Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:39 PM
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject:        Re: Column stripping


If you save the Query definition, you should not have the named problem.
After saving it, just execute its definition.

Short of that, you could create a view (SQL) or an LF (DDS) that has only
the columns that you want.

These would be one-time efforts.

HTH
Dennis





"Dhatha Thriyan" <deardhath@hotmail.com>@midrange.com on 01/07/2003
12:13:12 PM

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Hello All,

Help Please.  I need to create a subset of a physical file with some of the
columns stripped off the physical. I need to do this dynamically without
using SQL . the OPNQRYF doesn't seem to be helpful in this respect.

When I use Query/400, the column selection is static. Everytime if you want
to change the column, you have to go into query and deselect those selected
columns and select the new one. How do I do this dynamically (on the
command
line) ?




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