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Darnit Hans,  I thought I was going to get to write up my first PMR :)

btw Hans, can YOU think of a reason to use a MODS rather than the
techniques below?

thx,

rick

-----original message--------
Richard B Baird wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I just thought of one thing that a mods might have over the ds array
> thingy:  externally described ds support
>
> D $Record        E DS                  extname(filename)
> D                                      occurs(5)
>
> now, on the other hand could we do something like this?:
>
> D $Record        E DS                  extname(filename)
> D                                      Dim(5)
>
> which would?/could? effectively make each field in the data structure an
> array.  pretty sure it doesn't work that way - but one can only wish.

With one small modification, the latter does indeed work in V5R2.
The only extra thing you need is keyword QUALIFIED on the DS
definition.  Then, you access subfields as "RECORD(X).SUBF".

Cheers!  Hans




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