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I agree - sometimes banks, etc., send out flat files with some transaction-type identifier at the start of the row - the content is organized differently in each row, and I think we do something like have different DS' to handle the differences. SQL might be able to be used, but I think, at first glance, that it's be pretty ugly.
Cheers
Vern
On Thu, 22 Jun, 2023 at 10:21 AM, James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To: rpg programming on ibm i
Cc: jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 6/21/23 7:54 PM, Vern Hamberg via RPG400-L wrote:
I wouldn't even think about using program
described these days
Actually, program-described mode can be very useful if (a) one needs to
access files whose structure is unknown at compile-time, or might even
be variable, (b) one is able to obtain the structure at runtime, and (c)
for whatever reason, using SQL instead of RLA is not an option.
Not a very common combination of circumstances, to be sure.
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JHHL
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