RE: Accessing files In QTEMP and the utility of multi-memberfile s

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We used to use WRKMBRPDM to do file transfer from a multi member file back
when we used ETU.  Wrote a PDM pseudocommand that called a CL that did a
PWRFROM3XB and then renamed the member if the transfer was successful.  The
WRKxxxPDM commands have a lot in common with X-Tree.  

I don't use multi-member files a lot, but every now and then they come in
handy.  They are a logical, if not necessarily sensible, consequence of an
object based definition of files.  If you use them carefully, they are about
as harmless as anything else. <g>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hall [mailto:jhall@hillmgt.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:38 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Accessing files In QTEMP and the utility of
> multi-memberfile s
> 
> 
> Actually the storing of source code in members of a file is a good
> example of the weaknesses of multi member files.  How can you maintain
> multiple versions of source code (say by date) on the 400?
> Oh and keep them all in one library so that your general ledger is
> functionally grouped for operational purposes?  Who created 
> the member,
> last accessed, days used, audit trails etc.
> 
> How do you, (maybe you can?), allow a user to create / delete a member
> without giving them create/delete access to the file?
> 
> A member is not quite a file.  It has some of the information/security
> on its own but not all.  The 400 limits you to three levels  (Library,
> File, Member)  On other computers we would just use another 
> layer of sub
> directories.  Everything you can do with a multi member file you could
> do with a x-tree in dos 15 years ago.
> 
> Sure I use multi member files for some things - Archiving data
> transmissions by date.  But I have 3 separate transmissions (diff
> Format) so three files with a member for each date.  The more logical
> grouping of this would be a separate sub directory for each date with
> the three files in it. 
> 
> 
> John Hall
> 
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