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  3. April 2008

Re: Accessing a file member in SQL

Dave,

ALIAS is one way.
OVRDBF to the particular member is another.
Converting the file from multiple members to a single member is what I'd
recommend. Multiple members forbid the use of Constraints.
You could also SPENDMONEY and get a product from IBM that supports
multiple members. I forget if it is SMP or DB2 multi system. In that
scenario members are called partitions. We don't have it so I can't
comment further. I bet you'd have to modify your tables anyway. For
example if you segment members by year and don't include the year as a
column in the table because it's already in the member name, you're going
to have to change. Now, if the year is based off of a date stored in the
table you're probably ok.


Rob Berendt

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