RE: EXTNAME not picking up the correct file

Hi Luis
First of all - no apology necessary. I understand that people have their own things to do. I'm just glad that whenever I post a question on this list, people are gracious enough to take the time to answer.
Your explanation now makes sense.
I saw that V6r1 did in fact have what I need.
Now here comes the twist.
Since yesterday I have discovered that these files (in what I consider to be the wrong library) may have been put there years ago (for whatever reason) and they should in fact NOT be in that library.
I am hoping that this is the case. The file format definitely looks to be from years ago. If so I am going to delete them, but only if they can be.
Will let you know the outcome

Alan Shore
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 9:12 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: EXTNAME not picking up the correct file

Alan,

As I see it, your problem is that, being on V5R4, you can't use a
EXTNAME(mylib/myfile) keyword, so when I suggested the idea of including a F-spec, I was thinking about doing the following steps:

1) Include a F-Spec (input only/user open) indicating EXTFILE(mylib/myfile). That way you can have the file format you need.

2) Create two (2) data structures (before and after), using the LIKEREC keyword in your DS. Something like:

DRecBefore DS Likerec(FileFormat)
DRecAfter DS Likerec(FileFormat)

My apologies for my prior post being so terse (short?), as I was leaving my office in a hurry in order to retrieve my daughter at the school.

Best Regards,


Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries