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  3. February 2003

Re: OPNQRYF question

Amitava,

Use a dummy file as the FORMAT, in which you define all fields required within 
the query.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.

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On 14-2-03 at 11:27 Amitava Banerjee wrote:

>FILE1 has FLD1, FLD2 and FLD3 fields. Another file FILE2 has FLD4, FLD5
>and FLD6 fields. Now can I do an OPNQRY on both od FILE1 and FILE2, format
>FILE1 and key by FLD1 and FLD5? When I tried that I got an error "Key
>field FLD5 not valid for record format". I understand that since FLD5 is
>not in FILE1 and I am using FILE1's format in OPNQRYF, it is giving that
>error. 
>Is there any other way I can do that by OPNQRYF?

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