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One big thing I like about RDi's "member" functions is something not available in PDM. A member function across files. Sort of like the mythical options
WRKMBRPDM FILE(MYLIB/*ALL) MBR(ORD100*) MBRTYPE(*ALL) FILETYPE(SRC*)
To look up all the CL, RPG, etc related to that name.

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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:14 PM
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Subject: Re: Sometime you need multiple members in a table.

Don';t know why clean up would be any harder with savefiles Darryl thee are still library band objects so you would simply use WRKLIBPDM instead of WRKMBRPDM no big difference. Admittedly you'd have to restore to run a query but how often doe that happen? Personally I just dislike multi-member files so much I'd do most anything to avoid them!

All of the WRKxxPDM commands have equivalence in RDi - particularly in the latest version with the PDM interface.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jan 17, 2019, at 3:55 PM, a4g atl <a4ginatl2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My objection to using SAVF's is, it becomes a management nightmare
with 30 or 60 days of files. Part of my process is to clean up older
members which I could not do with SAVF's but...

The advantage of the members has been that I use WRKMBRPDM file_name
and I see all the members. I can then use the option codes defined in
F16 to give me commands to manage the members. Example: RR - RUNQRY *N
file_name member_Name RCDSLT(*YES). Other commands I have are to
resend the member when its not received or a resend is requested.

Quite frankly, WRKMBRPDM was a great tool that does not have a replacement.

Darryl Freinkel
Assignment 400.


On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 12:58 PM Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/17/2019 8:13 AM, a4g atl wrote:
I have a situation where I have a table defined. In the past I used PFs.
The table has a long and short name. This prevents me from using
CPYF or CRTDUPOBJ. I have used RUNSQL to do a Create Table ... as
(select..)
with
no data. This creates a table not a PF, okay.

I need a PF with Multiple members that is identical to the table. I
use
the
member to store copies of file we send to external systems as an archive.
The member functionality has been great for this and I do not want
to
have
hundreds of files in the library.

No lecture from me; this is a hard transition when the code base
expects multiple members. Do you already have an inquiry program that
knows how to switch members? When possible here, I've really, really
advocated to re-do that architecture to put the year (or whatever
each member is intended to segregate) into the archive table. So instead of (simplified):
ID
NAME
ADDRESS
SALES

I have:
YEAR
ID
NAME
ADDRESS
SALES

Extracting one 'member' of data is as easy as WHERE YEAR = :year;
comparing two arbitrary years is just as easy. Quite to do ugly with
multiple members.

To answer your actual question, search the web for RTVDDSSRC. Michael
Sansoterra posted a utility many years ago that will probably do what
you need: create DDS from DSPFD / DSPFFD.

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Your updates make it better!

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