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> Suppose you have a file where you don't know the key length at compile > time, but you do know it at run time. And further suppose you know at > compile time that it will consist of two zoned decimal fields, with the > first one either 9, 11, or 13 digits, and the second one always 5 > digits. > > Anybody know how to handle that? One way would be to use dynamic SQL to read the file instead of the typical CHAIN/READ/UPDATE/WRITE style operations. Another alternative is to call the ILE C APIs, _Ropen(), _Rreadk(), etc.
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