RE: DSPFFD utility

... but ACS shows you exactly the information you want
Open Schemas --> Select your Schema --> Select your Object type (in you case it might be table, view or index) --> Position on the table (you even can filter the tables) --> and then look at the context menu on your table:
Definition will show you all columns with short and long names, data types, length, CCSID, whether it is NULL capable or not, whether it has a default value and what the default value is, whether it is an identity column or not...
It also shows you the key and check constraints.
Work with shows among others all dependent objects.

I personally use FileAccess from the SSS Syntax System Services. (BTW a very good tool)
In the US it is sold by OASIS:
https://www.oasis400.com/fa400

But to be honest I use more and more ACS instead off FileAccess.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Craig Richards
Sent: Dienstag, 6. August 2019 11:21
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: DSPFFD utility

Hi Birgitta,

Thanks as always for your reply.

I have used both the ACS schema and SYSCOLUMNS in the past for various reasons.
But I was really thinking about a simple command and succint UI to show the fields, types, text and keys.

SYSCOLUMNS does have most of what I require (except the key information) but it's not particularly convenient to jump into STRSQL and start running Selects over SYSCOLUMNS.
So I'd be back to writing some kind of utility to make it cleaner/simpler I'm more than capable of doing that, but I was just curious to see what most people use these days for retrieving that kind of information.

It's fairly common for me to want to look at a file to remind myself of the spelling of a field, or its type or length.

Mostly I use WRKDBF which is what my client site has, but it does annoy me when it fails on the files with CLOBS and I have to resort to DSPFFD.
A while ago I did try emailing Bill Reger to see if I could fix the overflow problem in WRKBF but I didn't get a reply.

thanks and regards,
Craig


On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 09:42, Birgitta Hauser <Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you ever thought about using ACS (Access Client Solutions)
Schemas to get your file information?

Why is SYSCOLUMNS no option for you?
It contains all information for all columns in all files.
To get all information about a specific file you only need a select
statement:

SELECT *
FROM QSYS2.SYSCOLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'YOURFILE'
AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'YOURLIB';

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
(Les
Brown)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"What is worse than training your staff and losing them? Not training
them and keeping them!"
„Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so
they don't want to.“ (Richard Branson)


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Craig Richards
Sent: Dienstag, 6. August 2019 10:04
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: DSPFFD utility

DSPFFD with its "Display Spooled File" UI is not very convenient for
quickly scanning the fields and types on a file. And obviously it
doesn't show the database keys.

Most places I've worked use 3rd Party utilities like Synon YWRKF or
some in-house solution.

The place I'm working now uses WRKDBF but that doesn't seem to have
been maintained in a bunch of years and it falls over with an overflow
error on some files which contain CLOBs.

I just had a quick look at Peter Colpaert's WRKFLD which is
downloadable from http://www.think400.dk/downloads.htm but I'm not
sure that's quite what I'm after.

I don't want an editor or anything fancy, but something to show
fields, types, keys and text would be nice.
I know I could write something using the DB APIs or some of the QSYS2
tables like SYSCOLUMNS but at the moment I don't really have the time
or inclination.

I wondered what most other people are using for this kind of thing?

regards,
Craig
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