RPG 7078 error

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

From Al Macintyre

I have been programming RPG/400 since 1998 ... prior to that I was doing 
400/RPG (ASNA for 36) & RPG/36 ... I'm no Jedi Master at this, but I'm no 
novice either.

I am working on a project to populate some new files from our Bill of 
Materials data & one new RPG/400 program is accessing the same file several 
ways through different logicals.  I got an RPG error QRPG7078 "Factor 1 
length not same as First-Key field in file or record.  Specification ignored" 
in which the detail was "Factor 1 length is 41 but length of key field in 
file is 15."  Well I want it to be 41 long & the key field information in the 
same program confirms that IPHMORE has a compound key of: Char 15; then PACK 
6.0 signed; Char 2; Char 15; Char 2; and finally PACK 5.0 signed descend.  
WRKF this file to get at DSPFD logical confirms the file key is 41 long.

The line of code that it is complaining about is
    BKEY        CHAIN   IPHMORE     92

I defined BKEY as a data structure, not a KLIST because I'm populating some 
key fields by copying the whole set of 6 fields in one move.  IPHMORE is a 
renamed format - I renamed 100% of fields associated with accessing the same 
physical through different logicals.

I thought to check out wherever IBM stores the RPG error messages & see if 
2nd level help gave me any useful clues, but in WRKMSGF MSGF(*ALL) neither of 
the likely prospects QRPGMSGE or QRPG3MSGE seems to have 7078.  QRPG3MSGE 
jumps from RPG1331 to RPG8888 and QRPGMSGE jumps from RPG1918 to RPG8888.

I need some suggestions how to look at this for what I am doing wrong, that 
is giving me this 7078 error, or where to resolve my questions.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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