I'd have to second David on this. I wish in Unibasic there was a program/function to create temporary user files that get cleaned-up on exit and let UD/UV determine the area to create these on the file system.
Donald Verhagen "Never clean my room when I was younger either" -- Donald Verhagen Director Of Application Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tandem Staffing Solutions, Inc. 5901 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 450 Boca Raton, FL 33487 USA Voice Phone: 561.226.8261 Fax Phone: 561.226.8115 >>> On 5/16/2007 at 12:26 pm, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Wolverton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question for everyone then: Should IBM invent a method to extend the Query > languages of UniData/UniVerse to do this 'Temporal File' - a "Cross Data > File" SELECT/LIST/SORT? > > That is, should the logic for handling multiple datafiles with a common > dictionary basis be 'native' to the processes? Would we gain significantly > from this? > > If so, this should go to the Better n' Better group and U2AskUs... > > Have to contemplate how it would work though - essentially, they would have > to have back TWO elements on 'READNEXT' - the datakey and the file.... But > I could see TREMENDOUS use on some new fuctionality here... > > David W. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Norman Morgan >> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:32 AM >> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >> Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] Union Query >> >> I'm with you, Charles. We face this all the time, since >> Prelude's ADS splits data into open and history files. >> Merging lists is all well and good, but I still have to >> retrieve data from two separate files. I always wind up >> writing Basic to do it, making independent selects from each >> file and writing the keys to a work file with a tag >> indicating where the data resides. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
