RE: How to have multiple views of subfile data?

I've done something like this years ago using a single subfile and multiple
occurrence data structures.  If I remember right, it wasn't really that
difficult to do, just takes a bit to get it straight in your own mind at
what level the data for each side of the subfile is stored in with each
mods. But it's not too terribly complex. 



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Subject: How to have multiple views of subfile data?

All,

I've gotten a request to put together a subfile program that allows the
user to choose between two different views of the data.

In one view, each subfile record takes two lines.  In the other, each
subfile record takes 3 lines.  Note that while about 75% of the fields
are the same between the views, all the fields on line two of one view
don't show up at all on the other view.  Kind of like the different
"views" IBM provides in the WRKSPLF command for example.

I've never had a request like this before, in the past I've always made
use of SFLDROP/SFLFOLD.

I thought I'd see if anyone had run into this type of request and how
you handled it.

I've considered having multiple subfiles defined in the DDS.  Or perhaps
using a single subfile with just one long text field.  Unless I'm
mistaken, with either of those techniques, it would be easiest to use a
page at a time subfile so that I could show the same screen back to the
user when they switched views.

Perhaps DDS is not the right tool for this request and I should use UIM.


Thoughts anyone?


Thanks,


Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121