Re: DDL Files - Tables and keys

Glad to know that my dumb questions helped us all so much :)

From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/19/2008 08:07 AM
Subject: Re: DDL Files - Tables and keys

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Actually I did hear the giggles.
If you have to modify a S/36 program at all to support members then it
shouldn't be that hard to add a batch column in the table.

Actually I find:
Select batch distinct from InvoiceFile order by batch
much easier to program than a call to the api QUSLMBR.
to retrieve all the members.

Rob Berendt
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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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