RE: Multi-format files

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Rasch wrote:

>We were given a directive to create a 
>multiple-format physical file from a
>third-party vendor, but when attempted - it fails.
>
>The message on the failed DDS is:
> CPD7914 "File contains more than one record"

Dan,
Perhaps you intended to create a multi-format logical, not a physical?
To create the PF, create a "flat file" - one field and program describe the
output.  Using RPG, I would use externally defined data structures.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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