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  3. February 2002

RE: Externalizing input and output.

Scott wrote:

> If all your programs access the data
> through the logicals explicitly listing
> the fields then you can change the
> physical and programs using the logicals
> will still work even with LVLCHK(*YES).
> This method (all data access through logicals
> with explicitly named fields) is a good
> method to make it much easier to change
> database files.

It also offers performance benefits as well.  The wider the record length
passed in to RPG, the longer it will take to process that record.  Also, you
are saved from that inadvertent UPDATE to a field you never intended to
touch.  All of those 7031 messages go away, and only the fields you INTEND
to use are in the code.
  --buck

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