Re: ILE D-spec question

Rich, include the definition of TXT in the data structure as
D OTXT            DS
.......
D  OPPT15
D TXT                           75    DIM(15)                              
OVERLAY(OTXT)

HTH

Paul Tuohy

Rich Duzenbury wrote:

> 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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