You can use a concept called "derived index" to address this.
CREATE INDEX &LIB/fileI01
ON file
(substr(company,1,15));
Steve Needles
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 12:20 PM
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Subject: Re: DDS question
Thanks Rob,
The problem I have was that the Index in question took the first 15 chars of a 40 byte company name.
So I've created a DDS version of the physical file and of course defined the company name in there - my challenge was SST'ing that forced me to explicitly name the rest of that field and the other fields in the file, in the logical - otherwise I end up with a logical with only the key fields.
The reason I didn't use DDL was because I started using TARGET400 to do this migration and that of course uses old DDS..however I'm inclined to agree with you. Maybe I grab TARGETS DDS-DDL converter..
Also I wanted to do this in steps as my client is a very small shop and just want a working solution quickly for GDPR - so we can audit the field changes and maybe use encryption. Once there we can beautify the app without the pressure.
Regards
Kevin
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