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Re: DDL Files - Tables and keys

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 09:13 -0400, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
[snip]
What is so darned good about multi members that can't be solved by simply
adding another column that is indicative of what you used the member name
for?

Hmm. I shall try really hard not to be sarcastic. We'll see
whether I succeed. Here goes.

(*) Multi-member files work reasonably well on the AS/400 while
not disturbing too much those S/36 programs and programmers
which create files (e.g., per batch, or something) on the
fly.

(*) Batch identifiers within the record encourage scope-creep.
It becomes really easy, using regular application programming
techniques, to give a supervisor really advanced functions
like a list of all open batches, for example.

Okay, you didn't hear any giggles, did you?

Cheers,
Terry.



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