RE: UNION FILES

[Dean Bathke <dbathke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bingo, you took the words out of my mouth,
I think this HAS to be a Monday.
LOL - management LOVES Crystal reports.
&#((#$)( Anyway I guess Im off to see JUST WHY Crystal reports can use 2
files in the first place. :)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike.Collins@syan.co.uk [SMTP:Mike.Collins@syan.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:32 AM
> To:   rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: UNION FILES
>
>
> David and Eileen said:
> >> 4. The code you provided creates two LF's ... not a single merged view
> of
> >> any kind.
> This WOULD actually generate a multi-format logical, which most certainly
> can be read in as a merged view. I suspect that the product just cannot
> handle multi-format files. If I read the question correctly, a join
> logical
> wouldn't be appropriate either as this will just create a single record
> for
> both files. If the field names and format names were the same then you
> could create a single logical file format which is based upon two physical
> files, but I don't think this is possible where these differ.
>
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