Re: RPG enhancement suggestion

["Scott P. Johnson" <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of the reasons for Logical Files.  The other is setting up a key
for a file. In the SQL world there are VIEWs and INDEXs.  So don't be
afraid to set up a LF just to get a "limited" view of a file. Or just
use SQL and Create View to set it up for ya.  

We do this for our Employee Master file.  Some people need to be able
to view some of an employee's info.  The pay stuff and such stays 
'hidden' from this view.

-- Scott P. Johnson

Colin Williams wrote:
> 
> 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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