Why we create the Physical File Member?

Answer Posted / sethu 400

know about the as 400 hierarchy

library
source member
source file
source data
(r) source statement


source members are created to to distinguish the souces of
diffesent database file, cobol,cl and dds. All these are
due to the as 400 architecture

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