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Specifying an empty externally-described PF and OVRDBF to the program-described file, now that's getting creative. +1
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark S Waterbury [mailto:mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 12:32 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Query packed data?
My bad ...
SST in DDS does not support "packed decimal" fields ...
You could also create a physical file with DDS, with a record layout "matching" the fields in the "flat file" with LVLCHK(*NO) and then OVRDBF that file "over" the existing "flat file" .. .
Or, you could use CPYF ... FMTOPT(*NOCHK) to copy the data (temporarily) into your DDS-defined PF with the "correct" record layout (no need for
LVLCHK(*NO) in that case?) ... Then you would have "packed fields"
defined in all the right places ... and you can query or report against that "temporary" file as needed ...
Of course, if there is data that is not valid "packed decimal" data in the flat file, well ... good luck ...
HTH,
Mark S. Waterbury
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