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" But in regard to "never ever" referencing files in programs, why would you say that? Are you suggesting that ONLY SQL views should be referenced in programs? That wouldn't make a much sense to me."
People used to say always reference LF's instead of PF's. His statement is just an extension of that thought.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2017 6:10 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SQL and defining data structures
... create view is your friend. You must not reference any file in
your programms anyway, never ever.
I agree that create view is your friend in this case because the original post indicated that the SQL select statement produced a join of several files. The OP could reference the view as follows:
dcl-ds dsMYVIEW extname('MYVIEW') qualified end-ds;
But in regard to "never ever" referencing files in programs, why would you say that? Are you suggesting that ONLY SQL views should be referenced in programs? That wouldn't make a much sense to me.
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