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How about 3 fields in the customer master record - first name, last name, middle name. Then three logicals (or SQL), use SETLL and READE. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: fast search or scan for words in selected field > From: "rpg news" <rpgnews@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, September 10, 2004 8:21 am > To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Hi, > > We currently have customer master file which has customer company name > field. Customer company name field is 20 long, if this field has "MY > TEST COMPANY" description saved then we have another program which will > make three records for this records in our custom file, first records > with their customer number and name will have "MY" and second record > will have "TEST" and the third record will have "COMPANY". We have to do > this for fast search by any description given by customers. Our files > are getting huge and want to know if there is another quick way to > handel this on green screen. I thank you for your time. > > Wayne > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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