Re: Best/ most elegant way to process this record

I am guessing that SQL probably has a much nicer way of doing this, but consider defining a logical keyed thusly, using the SST keyword for Logical files:

A KEYFIELD 8
A ACCOUNT 1 SST(KEYFIELD 5 1)
....
A K ACCOUNT
A K KEYFIELD

Then, you can do a setll on ACCOUNT




Phil Kestenbaum wrote:

This could be as often as a weekly,
The key is Company, Division, Account (not that field in question)

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:44 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Best/ most elegant way to process this record

A couple of questions for you: How much/ how often will this happen?
What does the key look like in the logical?



Phil Kestenbaum wrote:

HI I have a field that is alpha, where it's 8 positions. The first 4
positions are a type of account and the 5th, is important this is for
the product group. In RPG I want to Setll to a master-file on which I
have a logical. The front-end screen to the user will also ask for the
Product group. I would thus like to use this as part of a processing
key.


I wanted to know if this is best to do this in RPG ILE or in SQL? Or
another method?


TIA,

Phil




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