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Yeah - my question was related to converting your flat-file internally described stuff to externally described tables. Those I- and F-specs would give you everything you need to create these tables, IIRC.

Cheers
Vern

On 4/4/2016 9:04 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:
Most use F & I specs. You can't have I specs in procedures, so newer programs use data structures. A few programs use SQL over this file (rare cases where that works).




-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: Re: Thoughts/experiences with JSON/XML on DB2

Justin, just curious - don't your programs have I-specs and kind-of-old-style F-specs for these files, still? Like having the key length and location in the F-spec?

Vern



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