Re: DDL's - tables and keys

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

AFAIK, you can have a primary key with more than one field. Also, if
you create any indexes, your programmers can use them as regular LFs.


Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries



On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Doug Palme <DPalme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In looking at the manual it appears that the only option I have for adding
> a key is the primary key, at least at the table level.  If I want to use
> more than one field I still have to create an index.
>
> Since we still have some programmers using tables and indexes as if they
> were PF's and LF's, I am trying to ascertain if there is any way to add a
> composite primary key to a table without an index?
>
> I assume no from what I have read thus far......but if anyone knows of a
> way or can offer clarification I would be most appreciative.
>
> Douglas
>
>
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