RE: details on record Format Level Identifier

Dan,

The keyword you're looking for is FORMAT.

FORMAT([library-name/]database-file-name)

Note that the record format name in the second file must be the same as
the record format name in the referenced file.


Relating to your first question, for the files to be considered the same
format, the format names must also match.
 
I don't know exactly how the format level ID is put together.  I know
that field names, sizes, attributes along with format name are used but
as far as the actual calculation, I don't know that's it's published.


Good luck,

Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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fax: 513-398-1121
 
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+cwilt=meaa.mea.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Dan
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:52 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: details on record Format Level Identifier

A followup question on the original post:

Is there an IBM-supported way to reference an entire record format with
one
statement in a PF definition so that there are no field-level
definitions in
the source?

Something like:
A R RCUWUS REFFMT(DEVLIB/FILEA RFMTNAM)

would "duplicate" the RFMTNAM's fields from FILEA verbatim into this
format.

TIAA, Dan