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True name is ORDINAL_POSITION.   I believe COLNO is a short alias - it's what I use in my query for table layouts.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

 
 





From: Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 9:02 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: RPG400-L Digest, Vol 16, Issue 404
 
I don't know where you find record format info (I've never cared/needed to look) but column COLNO has the field/column sequence.
    
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
 
  
  
   




From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 8:36 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: RPG400-L Digest, Vol 16, Issue 404
   
"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/14/2017 01:35:15
PM:
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Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:35:03 +0200 -----

To:

"'RPG programming on the IBM i \(AS/400 and iSeries\)'" <rpg400-
l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject:

RE: Project ideas....

Why not simply access the SYSCOLUMNS catalog view?


The system catalog views are rich with information, but lacks an index. It
grates against my nature searching for data without an index. I know Db2
for i can scan a million records in a hurry. But the APIs can give you the
exact record format, field, etc.

Using SYSCOLUMNS can you tell the order of the field, record format(s),
etc.? (I really would like to know.)

Perhaps I'm just missing an available index and some understanding, but
the API documentation is pretty clear.

Michael Quigley
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