RE: Flat file, same field, different positions

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Having _not_ thought this through, could you use a "common" 
>header data structure with several based() structures for 
>the differing parts? Roughly speaking:
>
>     d strucHeader   ds                  
>     d  sensType                      3p 0
>     d  sensID                        7p 0
>     d  roType                        3p 0
>     d  roID                          7p 0
>     d  DATA                       5000
>
>     d pDATA      S                    INZ(%addr(DATA))
>
>     d struc500   ds                  based(pDATA)
>     d  500Field1                      3p 0
>     d  500Field2                      7p 0
>     d  500Field3                                 3p 0
>
>     d struc360   ds                  based(pDATA)
>     d  360Field1                      3A 
>     d  360Field2                      9p 0
>     d  360Field3                                 1p 0

Good idea but it doesn't help for a couple of reasons:
1) the "common" bits are interspersed throughout each record type
2) I still need the large SELECT structure to shuffle the individual 
   names to a single set of universal names.
Thanks, Walden!
  --buck