Re: Compile error

[Hans <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Kredlo wrote:
> Please help!
> 
> I am trying to read an externally described file and automatically place
> the retrieved record into a local data structure.
> 
> The following code generates this compile error:
> *RNF5155 20      1 The Result-Field operand is not allowed for specified
> operation.
> 
> I found this in the Websphere RPG manual for the READ command:
> "READ{(EN)} name {data-structure}"
> "If name refers to an externally-described file or a record format from
> an externally described file, the data structure must be a data
> structure defined with EXTNAME(...:*INPUT) or LIKEREC(...:*INPUT)."
> and believe I am doing this in the first 'D' spec listed below.
> 
> Can anyone help tell me what I am doing wrong here?

The documentation is incorrect. With a result data structure on an operation 
to an externally described file, the name must be a record name. 
Furthermore, the data structure must be defined using LIKEREC, to ensure 
that the data structure matches the record.

That's the case for V5R2. In a future release, we plan on relaxing these 
rules.

Cheers! Hans