Re: Compiling a program with two files having the same name

Booth

Here's a good one: declare one (or both) of the files as program
described (pick any name you want as it won't matter at compile time), then
describe it with a data structure and perform IO ( read, write, etc) with
structures. A throwback to the S/36 and beyond, but it still works just
fine!

something like (forgive my lack of columned-ness, I'm at home)

Finput IF E disk
Foutput O A F 512 disk

D oRecord E DS qualified extname( realfilename )

/free

read input;
dow not %eof( input );

oRecord.OFIELD1 = NFIELD1;
etc...

write output oRecord;

enddo;

/end-free

You can use OVRDBF at runtime before opening the files.

Stu

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:10, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have to populate a new file in a new library with data from an old
file in an old library. The file names are the same, but the field
names are different/ Both are externally defined.

Great excuse to use EXTFILE() keyword! :)

This machine is at v4r4. :(

I thought I knew how to do this, but I can see now that I don't.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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