Re: SQLRPGLE question

[Carel Teijgeler <teygeler@xxxxxxx>]

tomh@simas.com wrote:

> I had opportunity last week to write - from scratch! - my first SQL RPGLE
> program.  What a godsend that we can use embedded SQL.
>
> What it does: uses the 'C' SystemCmd function to run the DSPFD command to
> build a file containing the member list of a certain multi-member PF.  Then
> it uses the SystemCmd function to do an OVRDBF to open each member in the
> file.  Then using SQL I read each record in the member.
>
> I do not know beforehand what the members are in the multi-member file.
> I'd like to use the SQL 'ALIAS' command to do the override instead of using
> the OVRDBF.  So... how do I use the SQL 'ALIAS' command with a variable
> member name?
>
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Why not list the members in a user space with the Display member list API and
retrieve any occurrence from the user space. Use the data from that as a 
variable
on the SQL-statement.

Hope this will help,

Carel


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