Re: CPD5237 in V5R1 printer file rivendell.midrange.com

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am unaware of any way to show the same field thrice, but to make 
lemonade from lemons...  wouldn't be nice to not worry about indicators? 
 Populate the three fields every time, with blanks if no other value is 
appropriate?

Sean Porterfield wrote:
> I found an old thread from 2002 that talked about the problem I'm
> having, but I'm not entirely sure of the solution.  I'm making a
> modification to an RPG program, so I converted from RPG III to RPG IV
> and decided to move to an external printer file.  The mod is a major
> output change, so it seemed like a good idea at the time.  I haven't had
> much experience with printer files, so I've been learning quite a bit.
> It seems strange to define all of my fields again, and arrays can't be used.
>
> I got through that part, but I have one line that could have the same
> field in three different places based on other factors.  I coded it just
> like from the O spec with conditioning indicators and the same field in
> multiple locations.  That is where I get the CPD5237 telling me the
> field has already been used in the record.  What?  Why on earth can't I
> use the same field more than once?  I can imagine many uses for such a
> feature.
>
> Is there a quick fix that I misunderstood?  I don't want to have to
> define new fields, because I would then have to change the RPG to
> populate those fields (or create a DS to overlay them).
>
> Thanks all!
>
> (P.S.  The OS will be upgraded "RSN" but this needs to be resolved
> before that date.)
> --
> Sean Porterfield