Retrieving DDS Source

Here is a list of several freeware, shareware, and commercial utilities that allow 
you to regenerate the DDS for physical and logical files and, depending on 
the utility, printer and display files.

Alex Nubla's Retrieve Database Source (RTVDBSRC) Utility
This free command re-creates a DDS source member from an existing physical 
or logical file. 
http://www.geocities.com/~alex_nubla/rtvdbsrc.htm

Projex400
This shareware toolkit includes the RETRIEVE DDS SOURCE (RTVDDSSRC) utility. 
http://www.projex.com/projex400/products.html

QUSRTOOL Retrieve Physical File Source (RTVPFSRC) Utility
QUSRTOOL was free in V3R1 and previous releases of OS/400; for later 
versions of OS/400, it's now sold as TAA Productivity Tools from 
http://www.taatool.com .

SSTG DDS Decompiler
This commercial utility can re-create source for compiled DDS physical, 
logical, printer, and display files.
http://www.sstglobal.com/dds.htm

Ancient iSeries NEWS Utilities
The November 1990 issue had an article "Get to the Source of It!" that 
included the RTVDDSSRC command that retrieves source for database files. 
This article is 13 years old, and neither the source code nor the article 
text is online. I've made the source code available at 
http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/noderesources/code/clubtechcode/RTVDDSSRC.zip . 
Please note that I make no guarantees about this code.

The April 1992 issue had the article "Re-create Printer Files with Ease." 
The article is not available online, but you can obtain the code at 
http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/code/index.cfm?fuseaction=ShowAllIssueCode&IssueSelect=Past&IssueYear=1992&IssueMonth=04 
. 
Again, old article and old code.

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