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That's basically how I determine which file to open. I keep a data
area in QTEMP for the user as s/he logs in that specifies which
company s/he is using.
To be more specific, the original system was designed on a S/36 and
uses group file ids, such that company A uses 'A.file' and Company B
uses 'B.file' so I just take the group id and build the file name.
Jerry C. Adams
When is this "Old enough to know better" supposed to kick in?
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Sent: Friday, February 08, 2019 8:30 AM
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Subject: Re: External Data Areas - Multiple Companies, One Program
Could you use the LDA to set what company is open, and then open the
specific data area depending on that?
I seem to recall doing something similar at an old job... it was my
introduction to the LDA. :)
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:18 AM Jerry Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
The discussion the other day on data structures brought to mind aready.
problem that I have been working on regarding data areas. I used a
data area to function as a sort of "truth table" for our company. O
read it into a program to determine if the next (or following) step
is
relatively
Works fine, but the owner decided that he wants to add a new company.
There
will be, I am sure, some new programs for it, but the basic back
office processing is pretty much the same. So I am modifying the
programs to access the file depending upon the company. That's
easy.
read.
The issue with the data area on disk is that I have not been able to
find a way in the manuals (that I understood, anyway) to access
different data areas. For example, a disk file can have a
EXTFILE(some-name) with USROPN that I then use to define that
"some-name" before I open the file. I cannot find anything similar
for data areas on disk.
I could, I know, just define two data areas in the program(s) and
then use the same method I'm using for files to determine which data
area to
But looking ahead, I wanted to make it flexible so that the next
time he sets up a new company, I will not have to go back into the
--I could, for example, easily change it to a data file. But wonderedeffect.
if there were any minimal coding changes that would accomplish the
same
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Thanks.
Jerry C. Adams
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