Re: Dual Format

In a message dated 00-01-05 18:24:06 EST, you write:

> I think I am going to have to open up the 2 files I created with DDS
>  just for the record layouts, then do some type of overlay to get the
>  record layout into the fixed length field of the un-DDSed file (the one
>  I will be writing too).
>  
>  Can anyone think of a better way?  If not, could someone give me
>  an example of how to do what I am trying to do?  That is, over lay the
>  40 bytes of my DDS to another field.  The DDS is externally described,
>  so is not in my program itself.  I am dealing with a small number of
>  fields,
>  7 in each of the header and details.

If this is rpg4, you can define data structures using the external file 
descriptions, populate the data structure subfields in the program, move the 
whole structure to a long enough character field and write that out to the 
banks file.  For our ACH files, I create a file with a single 90 char field 
and contcatinate the data into it.  HTH, Lance
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