Re: CPD5237 in V5R1 printer file rivendell.midrange.com -- MIDRANGE-L

I'm trying not to break too much at once, despite the change from O to
prtf.  The three fields overlap; does that make sense with regards to
your answer?  Hey, if I have to change the RPG to make it work, that's
fine.  I already had to do that for the arrays (thanks to the archives
and I think Jon Paris w/ regard to group fields) to make it "the right way".

My other choice is to fix the original problem - the fields only overlap
because the original designers didn't know whether quantity, price,
extended would be the largest field.  Thinking through, I should just
correct that instead of my original question.

Thanks Booth for making me think just a bit more about it!  (When
modifying vendor packages, I try to change as little as possible, but
sometimes it makes sense to second guess them.)
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Sean Porterfield

Booth Martin wrote:

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.)
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Sean Porterfield