RE: External Data structure

["Joe Giusto II \(E-mail\)" <juicenetdps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't work with procedures much, but try defining the E DS in a separate
procedure and call the program from the procedure.
I did a quick test putting the same E DS in the main portion and the
procedure and it looks like it will work.  Just not sure about the global
vs. local stuff.  You may have to play with it a bit.

Joe Giusto II
Programmer/Analyst
Ritz Camera
Beltsville, MD
301-419-3209 x347
410-813-2812 x347

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From:   rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]  On
Behalf Of Chandra Krothapalli
Sent:   Monday, April 01, 2002 5:48 AM
To:     rpg400-l@midrange.com
Cc:     rkrothapalli@hotmail.com
Subject:        External Data structure

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Hi,

I am writing a new program, from this program I need to pass all the fields
in a file to called program. I thought, I can do this by defining the file
as Externally described data structure, but 50% of the fields in this file
are also defined in another data structure. I can't rename the fields as
Called program updates some of the fields in the data structure. I want to
avoid the pain of moving each & every field of file to work field and Work
field to File field. I have 600+ fields in the file.

Any thoughts....  Thanks in advance

Chandra.
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