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Identifying Relations with Virtual Fields

CA 2E lets you specify only virtual fields on the Owned by, Refers to, and Extended by relation types. Virtual fields can be used only as read-only fields in standard functions. This read-only field is implemented as a join logical file or SQL view. It checks on the generation mode and access path type.

Different access paths for a file can contain different combinations of relations, and each file-to-file relation on the access path can have a different set of virtual fields associated with it.

For more information about files and relations, see the chapters "Understanding Your Data Model" and "Creating/Defining Your Data Model" in Defining a Data Model.