From AS/400 to iSeries to System i to IBM i on Power
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Twenty years ago these are the kind of things you had to know to work on the old AS400 systems. I found these on an old dusty corner of my homeserver. Enjoy the trip down memory lane or to use old RPG lingo AS400NERD CABEQ ‘1’ START DATABASE FILES What are the different definition levels …
IBM i has a database which stores data in files. These are called physical files.
The Physical file stores the actual data.
The data is written to a physical file in arrival sequence. This data can be accessed by RRN (relative record number) where the first entry on the file (also known as a table) is relative record number 1. ie: the first record in the file. The next record is RRN=2 then RRN3 and so on.
If you want to access the data using a sequence of something on the file (for example CUSTOMER sequence) then you would design and create a logical view of this physical file specifying that you want it sequenced by customer.
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