RE: IFS files and VARPG

Rob, 
        Have you looked into using the SPECIAL file type with PGMNAME()
PLIST() keywords on an F-spec?  You could write your own I/O routines
for IFS files.  I had considered this approach for UIM panels back when
they were somewhat popular.   


Thank you,
Matt Tyler
WinCo Foods, LLC
mattt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:12 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: IFS files and VARPG

Thank you.  My basic question was going to be something like if VARPG 
bangs out local file support with no major tricks then why can't RPGLE
get 
to the IFS without api's?  However it looks like you'd have to rewrite
all 
the current F specs to use DB2 files if IBM was going to adopt the VARPG

methodology.  And that would be a major blow to backward compatibility.

Oh well, Scott's IFS examples are pretty straightforward anyway.

Rob Berendt