Re: substring in MAPFLD (OPNQRYF)?

Raja Rajendren wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I need to extract a substring of keyfield in OPNQRYF Command (CL) using MAPFLD
> property and also arrange the records in MAPFLD order.
>
> Can u help me in this regards.
>
> Regards,
> Rajendren K. G.
> TMSI. India.
>
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Rajendren,

You can do that, but you have to do a few things first:
1) Create a dummy file in which you have the mapfields named and use that on the
FORMAT parameter
2) you can BIF %substring on a MAPFLD parameter on character fields, for numeric
fields use it in conjunction with BIF %digits
3) Define on the parameter KEYFLD the value *MAPFLD

Like
OPNQRYF file FORMAT(dummy) KEYFLD(map1 *MAPFLD) MAPFLD(map1 '%substring(field 4
6)')

Hope this will help.

Carel



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