Learning new stuff...

[Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I want to once again thank this list for being outright awesome.  I
learned something yesterday that was once again completely contrary to
the way I thought things were: I learned (I think courtesy of Mark
Walters and apologize if that is wrong) that you can mix SQL and regular
file access in the same source member.

For whatever reason, I had always been under the assumption that the two
don't mix, that you had to use one or the other.  While I have used
QSYSPRT in SQL programs, I figured spooled out put was an exception.  So
much for assumptions.  So why bother the list with this?  To clarify the
issue in case anyone else was under the same impression and to own up to
occasionally feeling downright dumb.  I'm sure we can all relate on some
level.

A legit question that comes to me though is this: if I can mix the two,
why do we have two RPGLE source types?  Why must I specify SQLRPGLE
instead of RPGLE?  If the answer is to signal to the compiler to use the
SQL pre-compiler first, then why not just scan the source file for a
"/Exec SQL" label instead?

I'm not trying to make waves, just trying to become enlightened ;-)

Have a great weekend,

Joel
http://www.rpgnext.com