RE: RNX1011 Error

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Probably why SQL doesn't have the concept of "FORMAT" names.


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On Behalf Of Tony Carolla
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:29 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: RNX1011 Error

You know, they could fix it pretty easily if they allowed the format
name to be the same as the file name.  Assuming that you never want to
use multi-format files (never saw a reason for these anyways).  It
seems that, on certain operations where either format name or filename
is allowed (CHAIN, READE, SETLL, etc.), the compiler uses different
methodology to perform the action, based on the choice to use filename
or format name.  Either way works 99% of the time, but sometimes, for
some mysterious, behind the scenes reason, one must be used rather
than the other.  If they allowed the same name for both filename and
format name (without having to RENAME), then the compiler could deal
with these 'mysterious' decisions behind the scenes, which is where
they should be dealt with anyways.

In my opinion, the decision boils down to, "do I want to chain to the
file, or the format", and with no real reason to go either way, what
am I left to do, flip a coin?

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