Re: Reading a joined file in RPG

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Buck,

You're right about not confusing multi-format with Joined.

However, he just might be doing a join.  Consider this, in a single 
physical with multi formats you do not need to replicate data
01-customer master
02-customer transaction

01cust#1
02bought some stuff
02bought more stuff
01cust#2
02bought some stuff
02bought more stuff

But to break this out into different physical's so that you can 
externalize it, not duplicate customer# into each of the 02 records, and 
still read them in the proper sequence, can be done how?
Either way, multiformat, or join, will require some duplication, to get it 
into the right order upon externalization, right?
Oh well, in that case you may be right. He could use a multiformat, he'd 
just have the duplicated data also.

Rob Berendt
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