RE: Using SQL Fetch with an unknown number of columns

Format the SQL statement so that it returns the record to you in a
CSV(delimited) type way. One big long text string.  Then you can either parse
out the individual fields or write it directly to a 'PC' file on the IFS.

-- Scott

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> Subject: Using SQL Fetch with an unknown number of columns
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> We have an app that uses a dynamically generated SQL
> statement to query out
> a set of records.  Files, fields, sorts, etc. are stored in a
> file, so we
> have no way of knowing what the recordset will look like at
> compile time.
> Because of this, we're having problems using Fetch in any sort of
> meaningful way.  We know how to Fetch into a DS or a bunch of
> variables,
> but both seem to require knowing what the recordset looks
> like at compile
> time.  If we have more variables in the Fetch Cursor Into
> statement than we
> have in the recordset, will this be a problem?
>
> All we want to do is dump the recordset into a work file so
> we can export
> that out to a PC file.  Unfortunately we're still on V5R1, so
> we don't have
> Create Table As.
>
> Mike E.
>