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  • Subject: RE: Journal receiver problems
  • From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:22:15 -0400

Ron Hawkins wrote:

>It appears that IBM changes the output format of the DSPJRN command with
>every new release. 
-snip-
>it will blow up if there is a file out there that doesnt match the format
it
>wants to output. If I delete the file each time, the DSPJRN command would
>not blow up but the format of the file would change and the follow on RPG
>program would blow up.
>
>Is anybody else handling this better?

If you were to use SQL to access the file instead of a "hardwired" DDS you
could retrieve the columns you want without the buffer mismatch problems.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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