RE:

Alternating format described in "Judy Yaegar's book Programming in RPG IV"
is when you have pairs of data in  a table, where you define one table as
the primary and the other one would be alternating. 

Example of two tables, table code on abbreviation for the state and the
alternating table on the states name.

***CTDATA TABCODE
AKALASKA
ALALABAMA
ARARKANSAS

D  TABCODE   S     2   DIM(50) CTDATA ASCEND PERRCD
(1)
D  TABNAME    S   14  DIM(50) ALT(TABCODE)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oludare [SMTP:oludare@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:40 PM
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> Rob,
> 
> Excuse my ignorance but what makes a table or an array ALTERNATING.
> 
> Oludare
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ilechr@cbs.fiserv.com>
> To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:30 AM
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> 
> > Gentlemen,
> >
> > Does anyone happen to know if there are any performance differences
> between
> > alternating tables and alternating arrays?
> >
> > Robert Ilechuku
> > ilechr@cbs.fiserv.com
> >
> >
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