Re: RE: RE: RE: Duplicate file format

["alan shore" <SHOREA@xxxxxxxx>]

Dave - thanks for your responses. Much appreciated.

>>> "Kahn, David [JNJFR]" <DKahn1@JNJFR.JNJ.com> 09/13 11:28 AM >>>
Alan,

In that case another possibility is to use file overrides at compile time
and run time. In your program you still define bigfile and weefile. Then you
issue an OVRDBF BIGFILE QADSPUPB and OVRDBF WEEFILE QADSPUPB. The problem
with doing this is that you either need to compile interactively or write a
CL wrapper to execute in batch and create the program.

In your run time environment you might as well use the names bigfile and
weefile (or more sensible ones) as the actual output file names in QTEMP
thereby avoiding run time overrides. If you're planning to put both files in
QTEMP they'll need different names from each other anyway. And if you call
one of them QADSPUPB you'll need a run time override for that to prevent the
system trying to open the memberless one in QSYS.

Compared with the effort of having a compile time override the one-time
overhead of creating 2 extra files is negligible. These only need to exist
for compile purposes and can be empty. At run time you can still put your
files into QTEMP as you plan.

Dave Kahn
Johnson & Johnson International (Ethicon) France
Phone : +33 1 55 00 3180
Email :  dkahn1@jnjfr.jnj.com (work)
           dkahn@cix.co.uk      (home)


-----Message d'origine-----
De: alan shore [mailto:SHOREA@dime.com] 
Date: 13 September 1999 14:56
À: RPG400-L@midrange.com 
Objet: Re: RE: RE: Duplicate file format


Sorry if this caused some confusion.
You are right, the example I gave was what I would like to see in RPG.
There is no problem as such, but if this was available in RPG, creating
other files using the same format would NOT be required, thus saving some
overhead. 
The procedures I am writing may need to be used by different people at the
same time, so to circumvent any possibility of duplicate files I am equating
ALL files to QTEMP, therefore the external copy is not really required, but
the internal copy is
Hence my request of one format being used more than once internally within a
program.
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