ILE D-spec question

["Rich Duzenbury" <rduz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

D OTXT            DS                           
D  OPPTX1                                      
D  OPPTX2                                      
D  OPPTX3                                      
D  OPPTX4                                      
D  OPPTX5                                      
D  OPPTX6                                      
D  OPPTX7                                      
D  OPPTX8                                      
D  OPPTX9                                      
D  OPPT10                                      
D  OPPT11                                      
D  OPPT12                                      
D  OPPT13                                      
D  OPPT14                                      
D  OPPT15                                      
D TXT             S             75    DIM(15)  

There is an existing file on the system that can hold up to fifteen individual 
lines of text, represented by the data structure above.  Each line of text 
happens to be 75 bytes long.  For processing reasons, I need to load the text 
lines into an array.  

So far the best I've been able to do is declare the array separately and at run 
time MOVEA OTXT to TXT for every record prior to processing.  I'm sure there 
must be an easy way to automagically overlay the data structure on the array, 
and cut my memory requirement in half, but I didn't find any good clues in the 
AS/400 ILE RPG reference.

Please don't ask me to redesign the file structure, because political and 
economic reasons prevent it.

Regards,
Rich

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