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Subject: RE: SQL
From: "Elvis Budimlic" <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:22:12 -0600
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I see. In that case, another option is dynamic SQL and leveraging the SQLDA
descriptor area. More code, but it works.
Search InfoCenter on SQLDA, there are a number of examples.
Here are a couple:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/sqlp/rbafydynexa
mple.htm
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/sqlp/rbafyproces
ssqlda.htm

Elvis

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: SQL

Elvis Budimlic wrote:

Yes, I've done it.
I just googled it and first hit contains Birgitta's post on the topic,

with

links to relevant manuals:

That looks like a case of the compiler resolving a data structure
definition to fields, rather than actually reading into or writing from
a block of undifferentiated bytes.

This is a case in which neither the filename nor the record structure
are known at compile time.

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