Before you go too far down that path, make sure your sorting & selecting
works like you want.
Are you more familiar with Pick-style A- & S-items? If so, you realize
how, if you put a correlative or a conversion into the wrong spot, your
sorts and selection criteria are goofy. The same will happen by doing
as a conversion what ought to be an I-descriuptor. Or vice versa.
Like Martin, I'm curious to understand your dislike of I-descriptors.
Regards,
Chuck
On 2/5/2010 1:46 PM, u2ug wrote:
We have a process that works strictly with I& D type dictionary items.
The fewer I-types we have the better.
One scenario where we can drop I-types in favour of D-Types is :
DATA.VALUE
D multi part '*' delimited : date / time
2
...
DATA.VALUE.DATE
I
DATA.VALUE["*",1,1]
D4-YMD
...
DATE.VALUE.TIME
I
DATA.VALUE["*",2,1]
MTS
...
This can be cooked down to :
DATA.DATE
D
2
G0*1|D4-YMD
...
DATA.TIME
D
2
G1*1|MTS
...
This works perfectly as long as the delimiter is not a system delimiter
( FM , VM , SVM , TM )
If we have :
DATA.VALUE
D multi value @VM delimited : date / time
2
...
DATA.VALUE.DATE
I
DATA.VALUE<1,1>
D4-YMD
...
DATE.VALUE.TIME
I
DATA.VALUE<1,2>
MTS
...
I don't see any way to drop the I-types because I don't see any
conversion codes that cam extract using system delimiters.
Am I missing something or are we just stuck with the I-types in these
cases ?
Gerry
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