RE: Dams

Doug,

Thank you for your answer. Yes, I did leave off the *INPUT portion of the
spec. I was following an example that was shown in the docs. Will try it
first thing Tuesday.

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.

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Jack, Doug..

Perhaps a final product coding snipped for the archives when you're done?

Don in DC


> Jack,
>
> My "Dam" for the day on V5R2 customer's machine became evident when I
>> attempted to use a Chain opcode to fill  DS directly. ... I check the
>> Websphere RPG
>> ILE docs and sure enough they said that it could be done but someone
>> must
>> have forgot to tell the compiler.
>
>
> That is only allowed with a program-described file (not externally
> described) at V5R1, but V5R2 added the ability to use externally described
> files but with a caveat.  The V5R2 docs say:
>
>   "If name refers to an externally-described file or a record format from
> an
> externally described file, the
> data structure must be a data structure defined with EXTNAME(...:*INPUT)
> or
> LIKEREC(...:*INPUT)."
>
> I suspect you left off the *INPUT qualifier on the EXTNAME keyword.
>
> Doug
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