RE: Seeking adivce

If you want a unique name for the data area, use the job number.

Albert York                          


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        Sent:   Monday, September 13, 2004 9:45 AM
        To:     RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
        Subject:        Re: Seeking adivce

        Hmm.. .I never thought of that... maybe use their username and the
        time to create the data area. I was thinking a file, but that is
hard
        to do dynamic. I will have to look more into reading and writing to
a
        data area, but I think that would work. Thanks for the suggestion.

        I am still open if you feel there is a better way!


        On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:12:42 -0400, wayne.james@xxxxxxxxxxxx
        <wayne.james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
        > May I suggest creating a *DTAQ in QTEMP?  If you were to created
the *DTAQ
        > with a unique name, you would also be "guaranteed" no duplicate
PO's. Were
        > I in your shoes, I would fear the overrides required to access the
member
        > containing the PO's to be created.  It sounds as though one of
them is not
        > succeeding occasionally.
        > 
        > Hope this helps.
        > 
        > L. Wayne James

        > 
        > Mike Wills 
        > >>> See below...
        > 
        > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:39:19 -0700, Tony Carolla wrote:
        > > Are you copying from the application's file into the one in
QTEMP?
        > 
        > >>> Yes, basically, when they do a write to their file, I also do
a
        > write to mine.
        > 
        > > In my experience, I find it best to go against the actual data
files,
        > > and build your own report based on that.  Sometimes, since we
rarely
        > > have source code for vendor's products, it is unclear exactly
how they
        > > handle work files.  If you can get at the data directly, and do
the
        > > calcs in your program, you might have more luck with the
problem.
        > 
        > >>> I know, but the problem here is, there is a number of ways
this
        > program could be run, I didn't want to have to "reinvent the
wheel"
        > just to print the exact same thing. This work file told me exacty
what
        > POs to print, I just wrote the logic to print them at this point
then.
        > Luckly, I do have access to the source, we just don't get support
for
        > modifying it... imagine that... :-)
        > 
        > > a file in QTEMP is a solution that works well, but sometimes it
is
        > > better to use an array (depending on the number of records/size
of
        > > each element) for the sake of speed.
        > 
        > >>> I thought about an array, but I don't know how many POs might
be
        > processed. It might be one, it might be hundreds. Maybe a data
area
        > would be better, or maybe there is something I don't know about
that I
        > could use. I am up to try anything, I just want to try an
eliminate
        > this problem we have now (and maybe learn something as well).


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