RE: Help with capturing errors codes in .ASP code talking

Joe,

Your reply to me is below.   I'm sorry you can't help with the ASP
error code capture but, I just had to answer the rest of your note.   

ALL data files, I can think of, that are not DB2 relational tables(DB2
on MVS, VM, VSE or UDB, for sure) or hierarchical files such as IMS or
network architecture files(what was it IDMS), or Partitioned Data
Sets(AS/400 uses something like this SOMETIMES), are flat files. This
regardless if they were created with DDS, are one big record in
structure or what have you.  


Sincerely,

Dave  

 

> From: Dave Odom
> 
> an iSeries flat file.

I can't help much with ASP access, but I was wondering what an iSeries
"flat file" is.  Back in the day, a flat file meant a file with no
intrinsic format: for example, 80-byte card files.  You had to map the
fields yourself using data structures or the like.  On the iSeries,
you
create such a file with a CRTPF command using the RCDLEN parameter.

Physical files and logical files with DDS are NOT flat files, by this
definition.  What in your terminology makes an iSeries file a flat
file?
What is NOT a flat file?

Joe