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Re: DataArea vs. Tables

And if you are a real glutton for punishment, you can use EDTF and DSPF to change and display their contents!

Vern

On 5/13/2011 2:04 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
On May 13, 2011, at 11:54 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

we just had a discussion about using data areas.

In my opinion they are not heavily used or needed.
I thin it is an incomplete picture Birgitta. You need to add User Spaces to the list. I personally wouldn't bother with data areas (too inflexible) - but I do use User Spaces extensively because they can be searched/sorted etc. and provide the functionality of a table with improved speed.


Jon Paris


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