RE: SQL multiformat logical

Rob:

You generally don't make major mistakes in concepts, so this seems a little 
confusing. If it is a M-F LF, why not simply work against the various 
underlying PFs? (It's been a long time -- can a M-F LF be defined over a single 
PF?)

It almost seems as if you have a program-described file with multiple record 
types. I can imagine that getting pretty ugly.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   5. SQL multiformat logical (rob)
>
>Is there some way to do a multiformat logical file in SQL?  Or, instead of 
>that is there something else I can do to fit that same bill?  Must be SQL 
>and not DDS.  We're not really talking about any particularly large files. 
> Actually a small set of transaction data.  Like a days' worth of EDI 
>transmissions perhaps.  I am wondering if, instead of the multiformat 
>logical file I do something like
>CREATE TABLE...  AS SELECT ... UNION this and that and the other thing. 
>Make sense?