Re: PF Compiled Files with Dictionaries vs. SQL-Created Tables

On 2/6/11 11:12 AM, caura wrote:

<<SNIP>>
If I change old files (with "editing" defined in them) to SQL-tables
as they should be defined,
Our users - being it standard or power-users - immediately react
"Hey Guys, you made our data turn out unreadable"
(not my words, yes IBM, there is a need for this...).
<<SNIP>>

I think I understand now what is desired. The desire is to be able to define in the SQL TABLE, just as in the DDS PF, the numeric editing for a column.? And to have a similar capability being desired for both [since currently supported neither in DDS nor DDL] to define character editing rules for a column.?

As an extension fitting into the current design, a request for an enhancement would be to have the LABEL ON column-name SQL statement to apply the editing rules to the columns; e.g.:

LABEL ON column-name EDITING IS ...

In scripted pseudo-SQL:

<code>

CREATE TABLE LibName/TableName
( MyColName1 AS M1 numeric(11, 0)
, MyColName2 AS M2 numeric( 7, 2)
, MyColName3 AS M3 char(10)
)
;

LABEL ON COLUMN LibName/TableName
( MyColName1 EDITING IS EDTWRD('0( )& - ')
, MyColName2 EDITING IS EDTCDE(J)
, MyColName3 EDITING IS EDTCHAR(' - - ')
)

<code>

Regards, Chuck