Re: Record name the same as the file name

Your rant on the SQL precompiler is warranted.  However I would argue that 
my request is strictly with the compiler team.

Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
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"Beppe Costagliola" <beppecosta@xxxxxxxx>
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IBM says that SQL is strategic.
But forgets to allow it in /free, to accept v5r2, to recognize record
formats with same name and more . . .
Who knows .

----- Original Message ----- 
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Subject: Record name the same as the file name


> I know that, with DDS, you always make the record format name different
> than the file name.
> I know that, with SQL, it defaults to making the record format name the
> same as the file name.  I further know there are tricks to renaming the
> record format name.  (These often involve naming the file what you want
> the record format name to be and then renaming the file after the fact.)
> I know that you can use a file level keyword to rename the record format
> name.
> However, why should we have to go through these tricks and shouldn't the
> compiler just be modified to get over it?
>
> Rob Berendt
> -- 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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