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Yep, although that thread focused more on whether to save the source at all.



-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 9:34 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Where do you store the SQL source for your tables, views, etc?

Very recent discussion on the list. Holy war.

In a mixed shop (DDS and SQL) I tend to put it in QDDSSRC so that those who may be a little long in the tooth can find it.

Some argue that source is a dangerous thing to keep around as someone may have ran an ALTER TABLE and failed to update the source so one should no longer keep source.
A counter argument is that there are rare situations in which the original table may have been gone long enough to have cycled out of your backup tapes and you can no longer do a "retrieve definition" of it.
See also:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/apis/qsqgnddl.htm
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzajq/rzajqprocgensql.htm


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