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Actually, there is a logical already built off the physical which is being accessed but I thought we could build an index on the physical and that might speed up the processing time for something reading that file. I could be way off base here because I just don't do a whole lot of this

John A. Candidi
American European Insurance Group
AS400 & POINT Application Manager
856-779-2274
jacandidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 2:09 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Indexing a Physical File

Would it be easiest to create a keyed logical file over the physical?

John Candidi wrote:
How do you add an index to fields in a physical file which was defined in COBOL without recreating the file?

John A. Candidi
American European Insurance Group
AS400 & POINT Application Manager
856-779-2274
jacandidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx





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