Re: program defined Input file - examples please

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Frank,

Jim's method is good.  Some might argue that you could use a bunch of I
specs to define your file, like:
     I                             A    1    5  ALPHA5
     I                             P    6    7 0PACKED3
However if you truly have "funky" data in the file then you will need to
evaluate each field prior to using either Jim's method, or the I spec
method.  For example, testing that a number is numeric, and that sort of
rot.  Granted there are some compiler options to ignore decimal data
errors but you will need to process that accordingly.

Maybe their definition of "funky" data is multiple record formats?  A
common practice years ago was the following sample data:
H0000001CUST0123
DITEMXYZ000025
DPRODABC000040
H0000002CUST0456
DBUBBATY000500

Reading this the first H record is a header, with order number 0000001 to
customer CUST0123.  On this order they purchased 25 of ITEMXYZ and 40 of
PRODABC.  The next order, 0000002 to customer CUST0456...
Are you getting the pattern?  This is still done in EDI because you pay by
the character to the Value Added Networks.
If this is their concern then using internally defined files with the
following might be the ticket:
     IMYFILE    AA  01    1 CH
     I                             A    1    1  RECID
     I                             S    2    8 0ORDER#
     I                             A    9   16  CUST#
     I          BB  02    1 CD
     I                             A    1    1  RECID
     I                             A    2    8  ITEM#
     I                             S    8   14 0QTYPUR
Of course you could still use Jim's method, but just set up two data
structures and set the pointer to the right data structure based on RECID.

Rob Berendt
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From: Frank W. Kany IV
To: rpg400-l-request@midrange.com
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:11 PM
Subject: program defined Input file - examples please


I have a physical file that has "funky" data in it.  I was told I had to
internally define the file in my RPGIV program because the program would
"bomb" if I were to do a READ operation on the file.  I've never done
this.  I've always used externally described files.  Does anyone have an
example of internally describing a file?  When it's internally defined,
can the program do operations such as SETLL and READE or do I have to read
each record to find the record I want?  I found the following code from
Jim Langston in the midrange archives:

============================================
When you open the file in your program open it like this:

FARFILE    UF   F  222        DISK

D FileNM_DS     E DS                  ExtName(ARFileNM)
D                                     Based(FileNM_DS@)
D                                     Prefix(NM_)
D FileNM_DS@      S               *

IARFile    NS
I                                  1  222  ARBuffer

C     *InzSR        BegSR
C
C                   Eval      FileNM_DS@ = %Addr(ARBuffer)
C
C                   EndSr


Where:
ARFILE = Your existing file with data
ARFileNM = Your new empty file with correct DDS
===============================================

Is the above code the easiest way to internally define a file.  If so what
would the READ or SETLL operation look like.

TIA,

Frank

Below is a query output I ran on the file.

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