Re: Difference bet. Primary and Full procedural file.

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ron,

>Yes Doug you are right I have not posted alternative code.  However, when
>nearly all my programs are done with SQLRPGLE,

Fine.  Then post a sample program in SQLRPGLE which shows how you perform
heading and total level calculations and printing.

SQL is great for many things -- although I have my beefs with the current
precompiler -- so I don't care if you post SQL or REXX if you think it is more
readable and easier to maintain.

The goal is for programs which are easy to maintain.  If it is faster to code
and / or executes faster too, that is an added bonus.  I've shown you what I
consider to be the easiest to maintain, and it also happens to be very fast to
code and performs well to boot.

All I'm asking is for you do to the same -- show me what you consider to be the
right way to do this simple, common task.

>I don't even have an F spec for my primary files.

<sarcasm *on>

What?  You mean - gasp - that you are asking the compiler to do something for
you like opening files and reading records when you are not explicitly coding
the operations?  How is the poor maintenance programmer supposed to know what is
going on?

<sarcasm *off>

Doug