RE: Text on report

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't know about opnqryf, but I've used query400 and qmqry on source files
lots of times.  It's one of the things I use when I'm behind on logging my
capitalizable hours  and can't remember what I've been doing for the past
six months.<g>  You do have to override to the appropriate member.


A source file is a multi-member physical file with three fields. The srcdt
field has helped me many times.

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Joel [mailto:StoneJ@GourmetAward.com]
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 12:13 PM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Text on report


Interesting ideas, but not his best choice for what he is trying to do!
(nothing personal of course) :). 
You mention speed over-rides the decision.  Who cares about access speed
when both are sub-millisecond?  To read 12 msg records from a physical file
or a source file is instantaneous, so that doesn't help with the decision!
On the other hand, source files are limited use files.  They cannot be used
with Query/400, nor with OPNQRYF, nor with lots of other products.
When I have created these types of files in the past, I end up using all
sorts of products to join the text to reports, other files, screens, etc.
With source files, you always have to convert the file to a PF prior to
using it.  If there are lots of msgs in a source file, it could take awhile
to convert to a PF, especially in an interactive job.






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