Re: Dual Format

In a message dated 00-01-06 10:43:01 EST, you write:
>  Do I have to create a Data structure listing all my fields in my
>  program?  If so, it would be just as easy to internally describe
>  the file then.  I don't want to have to list the fields in my program.

You use this syntax to create the data structures:
 d UBCntrol01 e ds                  extname(UB01File)
 d UBCntrol02 e ds                  extname(UB02File)
 d UBCntrol03 e ds                  extname(UB03File)


Where UBCntrolXX is the data structure name and UBXXFile is the external file 
with the field names.  You will need a separate file for each kind of record 
and you must create the file, but it need not have any data. If you want the 
data structure to have the same name as the file, you can omit the extname() 
keyword.  You do not actually open these files in the program, you don't have 
an F spec for them, and you don't read them in the program.  This just 
creates a data structure with the fields named and defined as in the DDS.  
This means you don't have to define the fields internally.


> My physical file will have one field, maybe I'll call it UBBUFF.
>  I can't say MOVEL UBCntrol01   UBBUFF  can I?
>  UBCntrol01 being my record format name for the header DDS.

Yes, you can. Except UBCntr01 is the data structure name, not the record 
format name.  Make UBBUF big enough for the longest record, populate the 
subfields and movel (or eval)  the data structure name into UBBUFF and write 
UBBUFF.  Works great!   HTH, Lance

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