RE: Create View

[Marco Facchinetti <facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

1. the file is on Iseries and is continously updated.

2. when I says "hundreds Sql" I mean each doing something like this:

select * from x,y where x.field1 = y.field1 and y.field2 in('01' '03') order 
by....

The point is that the "flat" file contains a lot of data very usefull to select 
records and I
don't want to substring all the times with hardocde positions.

Thanks in advance
Marco

--- phil Kestenbaum <pkestenbaum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mario,
> 1. Are you importing the "flat file" into SQL and then querying it? or Are 
> you setting it up as
> a linked server?
> 
> 2. When you say "file with (hundreds) of sql." do you mean you have hundreds 
> of "rows" of data,
> or is it sql statements (querys) 
> 
> Phil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marco Facchinetti
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 9:11 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Create View
> 
> 
> I need to read a "flat" file with (hundreds) of sql.
> 
> The file is very simple:
> 
> A status field
> A record type field
> A key field
> A data field
> 
> the data field is the problem since all RPG programs read it via external DS 
> but of course Sql
> cannot.
> 
> I'd like to define a view for each type of DS so I can use them freely via 
> Sql without having to
> hardcode positional substring in the statements.
> 
> Basically I know how to do it:
> 
> CREATE VIEW MUTABCAB0F (TACDCABINA, TADSCABINA, TADATARILA)
> AS SELECT                                                 
> SUBSTR(TBCDELEME, 1, 5) ,                                  
> SUBSTR(TBDATITAB, 1, 50) ,                                 
> DATE(SUBSTR(TBDATITAB, 51, 10))                            
> FROM MUTABEL00F                                           
> WHERE TBSETTORE = 'CAB'
> 
> The view is working but it's really poor since the fields generated are not 
> referenced to the
> original DS.
> 
> How can I mimic the LIKE statement of the CREATE TABLE on CREATE VIEW?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Marco
> 



                
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