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  3. July 2010

RE: Retieve source from Display File

You could use the QDFRTVFD (Retrieve Display File Description) API as a
means to re-create the DDS for your display file.

The information returned by the API is extensive. You would have to write a
program to interpret the data returned by the API in order to create DDS
which represents a functional equivalent of your original DSPF. This is no
small task.

If this is a one-off exercise (and you simply must have that DDS source)
then I'd suggest using a company who specialise in source retrieval - but
they won't come cheap.

Best wishes,

Richard

-----Original Message-----

I think I am stuck back in my System 36 days.

I know you can retrieve CL source if the CL program allows it.

But can you do that for a Display File? I don't see any command for that.

The object of the display file is there, it shows me in the description
where it was compiled from, but alas, no source.
It was compiled back in 2007.

Thanks.

Tom Deskevich




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