RE: Applying a DDS

The book I used to learn is called Programming in COBOL/400 by Cooper, Stern, 
and Stern. Here's an Amazon.com link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471418463/qid=1130159023/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-9355817-0351131?v=glance&s=books

It's a bit on the expensive side, but it makes a decent reference, especially 
for people new to COBOL.

Good luck,
Kelly

-----Original Message-----
From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Folorunso
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 4:02 PM
To: COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400
Subject: RE: [COBOL400-L] Applying a DDS


Hello Kelly,
 
I have a project coming up very soon my resource are not within my reach is 
there any way I can get an ILE COBOL/400. Book.
 
Do you know of any better method of re-engineering or making the process 
faster. I am thinking using an embedded SQL400 will improve an old process. 
Thanks
Best Regards,
Joe Folorunso

Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do you just want to read records from the file in a COBOL program? I don't see 
why a COBOL file description (FD) would need a DDS. Shouldn't you be able to 
just create a COBOL file description (FD statement) with the necessary fields 
defined in the COBOL program regardless of the existence of a DDS?

Kelly

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From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Garcia, Luis
Sent: Fri 10/21/2005 6:20 PM
To: COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400
Subject: [COBOL400-L] Applying a DDS



Is there a way to apply a DDS to a file created without the DDS? Or how can
I access that data?

I got a file that was created without a DDS, I have a DDS but I don't want
to write a program to read and write into another file, so I was wondering
if it was a faster way?

Thanks

Luis
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