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  3. November 2009

Re: How to treat obsolete information from a physical file

Hi David

If you can't use history files, as Birgitta suggested, start using a QAQQINI file with the IGNORE_DERIVED_INDEX value set to *YES. Once you get to v6r1, this is already the default. But this will eliminate the problem with select/omit files.

David FOXWELL wrote:
Hi,

I'd like to know how you are treating such records, for example, a client that is no longer with you. In our client file, the client would be flagged as being no longer active, but never deleted. The trouble is, this has led to us creating logical files that omit these inactive records and that is a problem for the programs that use SQL.

Now, my RPG program needs to list clients in a subfile where the user types part of a name and/or town. If I don't use the OMIT logical, then my program must read all active and inactive clients then do the same with the address.

Any thoughts will be appreciated.

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