Re: %fields in write op code will NOT support 6.1 ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP function.

Ok.....

This doesn't surprise me.

If you really want the ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP functionality from an RPG
RLA program, just use a logical that doesn't include that field.

Charles

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:36 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I submitted a DCR that IBM add %fields bif to write and not just update.
Hope was that this would use default field values on adding new rows to a
table.  IBM said they can do that and 'may' do so in a future release but
won't add support for ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP


User Group Number - MR0514094047
Document Status - Suggestion
Title - Add %fields to the WRITE statement in RPGLE

This is a reasonable requirement. IBM will consider implementing the
request in a future release.

Additional comment:
The request would not fulfill the background requirement of supporting the
ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP feature on an RPG WRITE operation.

Using %FIELDS for WRITE would work in a similar way to coding individual
fields on Output specifications.  Any output field not listed in the
%FIELDS list would be output with the RPG default value.  The RPG WRITE
operation is a record-level-access operation.  It is not possible for RPG
to pass only some of the fields in the record to database.

Rob Berendt
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