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Jeff,

You can change the data type of the date field in the LF, like

    A            INVDT                  A

Hope that helps.

Regards.
Carel Teijgeler

======= At 2002-05-06, 14:54:00 you wrote: =======

>I'm trying to create a logical file and use the year and month portions
>of an *ISO date field ("INVDT") as a key, like this:
>
>     A          R SHRECORD                  PFILE(*LIBL/SLSHST)
>     A*
>     A            SLSNR
>     A            CUSNR
>     A            INVDT
>       . . .
>       . . . <snip>
>       . . .
>     A            ONRCUP
>     A*
>     A            INVYR              I      SST(INVDT 1 4)
>     A            INVMO              I      SST(INVDT 6 2)
>     A*
>     A          K CUSNR
>     A          K ITNBR
>     A          K INVYR                     DESCEND
>     A          K INVMO                     DESCEND
>
>The DDS compiler is hiccupping on the SST statements, saying the field
>to be "substringed" must be character or zoned decimal.  Is there a way
>to do this?
>

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