Re: Creating DDS from physical file

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also needed to do this, and I wound up creating a few programs to do this for 
me.
Basically, it does a DSPFFD (Display File Field Description) to spool file.  
Then the
spool file is copied to a physcial file (or if DSPFFD goes to *OUTFILE I did it 
that
way, would have to look at the code to make sure).  The program then reads 
through
the file and creates a source file with the A specs for the fields.

I then have to do a little manipulation, I do a DSPPFD and get the record 
format name
and add that to the beginning of the source file.  Also, I look at the names of 
the key fields
and add them to the end of the file as K.

I then compile it and have a duplicate of my original file.

This has worked 95% of the time.  One time, for some reason, it did not 
consider it an
exact copy, when I went to do a cpyf from the old one to the new one (don't 
remember why)
I had to specify *NOCHK or *MAP.  Mighta been field validation or somethign my 
little
program doesn't take into consideration.

If you need the code for this let me know and I"ll e-mail it to you directly.

Regards,

Jim Langston

James David Rich wrote:

> I've been looking and haven't found the answer to this:  can I recreate
> the DDS specs from the physical file?  How?
>
> James Rich
> james@dansfoods.com

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