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Good idea about the WDSC enhancement.  Might want to bring that up on the 
WDSC list.

I am not a big fan of the external data structure for all fields in a file 
and then doing a select * into :extds for reasons previously mentioned. 
Namely when someone adds a field in the file you're going to get a message 
in your program if you don't recompile.  Now, RPG I/O people are thinking 
no big deal they are used to having to recompile all of the time. However, 
if you do use the whole file external ds and use selective fields:  select 
this, that, yo into :extds.this, :extds.that, :extds.yo from myfile ... 
then you will not run into this issue.  Granted it makes for a longer sql 
statement in your program, and for the poor SEU people out there greater 
possibility of typos (but they're SEU people - who cares?) but it does 
make for greater data independence.

Rob Berendt

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