×
The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.
On 3/16/2011 1:27 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Joe,
True on the ORDER BY limit in a view, but you might want to take a look at
the enhancements done to CREATE INDEX.
CREATE INDEX, with the RCDFMT clause and the WHERE clause is a beautiful
thing. I believe that the index fields and the fields added in the RCDFMT
clause can be UDF's.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/db2/rbafzxcindx.htm
Rob Berendt
Yeah, I've been reading about that. It has its limitations as well; as
far as I can tell you're stuck with the layout of the underlying table.
One of the primary benefits of the view is to select and omit columns,
and the INDEX ... WHERE doesn't give you that. Logical files still do
the combined sort, select and reformat better than any one tool in the
SQL toolkit.
One other thing - you can't do SQL on a DDM file. There are
circumstances where getting at a table on another i is required. With
RLA, it's CRTDDMF and I'm done. With SQL, it's impossible. (Yes, it
can be done with ODBC/JDBC, but not with standard SQL.)
Joe
This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact
[javascript protected email address].
Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.
midrange.com
