Re: Suggested RPG Enhancements

Does anyone know what happens to an RPG/LE program if the optimization
level of *FULL is chosen ?

Regards
John.

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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