Re: Are level checks still useful?

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I understand it, the whole point of level-checking is to make sure 
that programs using native RLA to access a file don't access it 
according to incompatible meta-data.

If you're doing all your access through SQL, or you have full control 
over revisions, and/or full runtime access to the meta-data, then you 
probably don't need level checking.

And the simplest way to bypass it in native RLA, if you're only 
accessing the portion of a record format that is "etched in stone" (or 
you can deal with an unformatted buffer at runtime), is to treat the 
file as program-described. It's a technique we use all the time; it 
works extremely well if you know what you're doing.

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JHHL