Re: Qualified data structure field names

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:28:40 -0700
>From: "Peter Dow" <pcdow@yahoo.com>
>
>Does anyone know if the new V5R1 qualified data structure field names will
>still work this way?
>
>>From: booth@martinvt.com
>>If the field names in the D1DS data structure are the same as the field
>>names in the display D1  then there
>>would be no reason to move them into the data structure.  EXFMT has done
>>that already.

Peter, if you want your display file to use the subfields in a qualified
data structure, you have to use the PREFIX keyword for your file, or you
have to use RENAME I specs.

For example, if the file has fields FLD1 and FLD2, and you want it to use
fields DS1.FLD1 and DS1.FLD2, you would code PREFIX('DS1.') on the F spec.
(You _must_ use quotes when the prefix ends with a dot, but you _can_ use
quotes for any PREFIX keyword if you want to.)

Barbara Morris


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