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  • Subject: Re: RPG enhancement suggestion
  • From: "Denis Robitaille" <DRobitaille@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:48:34 -0400

Dont worry, only used field are brought into the program. In fact, no space is 
reserved for unused field.

Denis Robitaille
Cascades Inc
819 363 5187
fax 819 363 5177
DRobitaille@cascades.com

>>> Colin Williams <Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk> 06/21 11:14 AM >>>

I have been writing an extract program, to bring in data from a file on
an external system. During this, a question occurred.

Would file processing in RPG be a lot quicker if we could drop fields
that we weren't using, similar to the way it works when you internally
describe
a file, but without actually decribing the file internally.

eg: if I have a typical input file with 50 fields on it, but I only
actually use 1 field on it in the program, I would like a keyword that
allows me to
drop all the other fields from the file.

There must be 1000's of RPG programs out there that use only very few
fields from files, but read in every field on the file every time a
record 
is read

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