The clash of ELEMENTs

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

Leonard

The only time you'll need to worry about this is when one of the items is
character and another is numeric. Character items can be of any length but
PH will use the element definition as the default. Same with numeric items
-- the items can be of any type or several types (integer, real, zoned,
packed) -- the element definition will be used as the default.

But -- as long as you never want to use Qutil to create the database -- you
can call the items in the record definition anything you want. PH doesn't
care -- it only moves an Image buffer into its own internal buffer as one
big chunk, in much the same manner as it does for KSAM records. You loose
some of the automatic initialization in PH but in these kinds of cases it
probably isn't much help anyway. The only thing that really matters is the
record length.

Regards,
JWP

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org
> [SMTP:Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:36 AM
> To:	powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu
> Subject:	The clash of ELEMENTs
> 
> 
> 
> (PowerHouse 8.19 C3, HP3000)
> 
> I have two data bases that I need (or prefer) to incorporate into a single
> dictionary. They have several elements in common, but with different
> attributes.
> If these were KSAM or flat files, it would be a simple matter of putting a
> prefix on one of the two names. What will happen if I use a prefix on a
> TurboImage element/item? I do not see any method of aliasing in the PDL
> syntax.
> 
> (Before posting the question, I thought of just trying it, but there seem
> to be
> too many common elements to make this test happen quickly.)
> 
> Thanks.
> ===================
> Leonard S. Berkowitz
> Perot Health Care Systems
> (Harvard Pilgrim Health Care account)
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