Re: AW: Timestamp on a file

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

My impression on this is that the entire record format is passed into RLA. 
 Thus RLA overrides what gets written into that column.  See the results 
of my Design Change Request
 
User Group Number - MR0514094047
Document Status - Suggestion
Title - Add %fields to the WRITE statement in RPGLE

This is a reasonable requirement. IBM will consider implementing the 
request in a future release.

Additional comment:
The request would not fulfill the background requirement of supporting the 
ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP feature on an RPG WRITE operation.

Using %FIELDS for WRITE would work in a similar way to coding individual 
fields on Output specifications.  Any output field not listed in the 
%FIELDS list would be output with the RPG default value.  The RPG WRITE 
operation is a record-level-access operation.  It is not possible for RPG 
to pass only some of the fields in the record to database.         

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Rob Berendt