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I have five PF that I want to join and they all contain a key! When I join them I only get the records that match in all of the files instead of all records whether there is a match or not.
I.e. The first file has the employees personal information such as name, age. The second file has the employees first address, the third file has the employees second address etc...
When these files are joined, if the employee doesn't have a record in the second, third, fourth or fifth file, the results are not returned for that employee even though they exist in the first file.
Does anyone know how to get around this? I have no other choice but to create a logical!!
Thanks.
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by: Mind_nlPosted on 2004-08-04 at 00:07:02ID: 11712787
How did you make the logical? An easy way to do this would be to make view. Open up iSeries Navigator and goto the database part in it. if you right click on a library you can create a new view. It is created like we are used to in MS access by selecting tables and dragging fields from one table to the other to specify the join. Here you would select a left-outer-join (select all rows in the left table and only those in the right table where the join is true)