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  3. April 2009

Re: Update primary file

Did you see my earlier email?

Here's the essentials...

INFDS (somewhere around pos 401) has the key to the next record. How much
more "look ahead" can you get?


In a message dated 4/26/2009 7:37:45 P.M. Jerusalem Daylight Time,
mlazarus@xxxxxxxx writes:

Barbara,

Along the same lines, is there any reason that limits file
processing hasn't been expanded to use externally described file fields?

-mark


At 4/24/09 01:54 PM, you wrote:
Douglas Handy wrote:

Well, couldn't that just have been handled the same way you rename a
field
from an external format, even under RPG III?

In my experience with look-ahead fields in the 70's, you typically only
cared about a few fields at most and only list them under the **
I-spec, not
the whole record format. Why couldn't the field rename columns be
used to
supply the new name?
>

That's a good point.

I can't guess at any other possible reasons for disallowing it. It's
possible that "they" had the same thinking as I just did.


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