RE: Same field names

[Roger Boucher <RBoucher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a list of these different kinds of system files?  I've seen a
few of them mentioned in this forum and they are all very cool!  Are
they listed in some IBM manual somewhere?  I found this particular one
(QADBIFLD) in "DB2 for AS/400 Database Programming V4R1" using
Infoseeker.  Is there some kind of master list of all the neat system
files??  =)

Thanks for any leads!

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 7:46 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Same field names


Not to start a holy war, but here goes...

Our accounting package uses the same field names in all of their files.
For example in the 
files EMPNAM, EMPJOB, etc, the employee number field is EMPLY.  Prior to
RPG ILE, this was 
a minor pain because you had to rename all the fields by hand.  With ILE
RPG you just use 
the PREFIX keyword and the rename is done quick.  But, here is the cool
part.  Query the 
file QADBIFLD on your system and you can see every file containing this
field.  Since this 
file is 1.4GB on our system I thought I'd might as well use it.

So what do you think of using the same names?  How about requiring
database field names be 
limited to 7 or 8 characters so the PREFIX keyword is cleaner?
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