Re: how to duplicate this mainframe process on iSeries?

"Rich Loeber" <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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Michael,

Typically, each member within a file has the same definition as all of the 
other
members.  I think I was assuming that the data submissions were all going 
to
have the same format.  Of course, you have have files with variable length
fields in them that would certainly qualify.

The OVERDBF MBR(*ALL) will consolidate all of the members into a single 
data
stream with the attributes associated with the *FILE object.  For example, 
if
you had multiple site submitting payroll data, it would all be coming in 
in the
same format (hopefully).  Each transmission would go into a separate 
member, but
at the end of the day you could read all of the members as if they were a 
single
file.

That's clear enough.

Here's another thing I believe we may need to know how to do. While a COBOL 
program is processing a physical file with OVRDBF MBR(*ALL), can it -know- 
which member it is currently processing?