OVRDBF POSITION w/packed field?

Hi, 

Does anyone know of a way to use the OVRDBF POSITION parm using a 
variable for the key value against a file with a packed key? 

Someone at the client brought this to me today. We seem to be able to do 
this with a hex literal or a character variable against a character key. 
We are trying to find a way to specify the hex value to put up against 
the packed field. Everytime we do this with a character variable it winds 
up with a quote outside the x like... 

'X' || &CHARVAR -> 'X''123456F'''

This gets by the compiler, and the OVRDBF returns no errors, as it sees 
it as a string, but the following OPNDBF returns an error at execution time. 

Or does someone have a workaround? He's just attempting to read one 
config record out of many based on a passed parm. Looking for a CL 
solution, of course we could call an RPG and have it CHAIN the record for 
us, but would rather not.

TIA, 


Jerome Hughes               jromeh@aol.com
InterPro Consulting, Inc.   http://www.interproinc.com
Rosemont IL USA             these are my own opinions only

April is the cruelest month, breeding 
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing 
Memory and desire, stirring 
Dull roots with spring rain. 

-- T.S. Eliot The Waste Land, 1922. (Maureen reminded me.)



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