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Peter Vidal wrote:

"Select;
When RunQtr = 1;
  Update MPSSumR %fields(MPBQ1);
When RunQtr=2;
  Update MPSSumR %fields(MPBQ2);
...

or
Update MPSSumR %fields(MPBQ1:MPBQ2:MPBQ3:MPBQ4);

or
Update MPSSumR;


I am guessing at MPBQ1. This email is so cleaned up I can't see the original file field names used in the array."

Rob, you are using the correct names and any of these options may work.  What
confuses me is the fact that apparently %FIELDS can't handle arrays.
Is this true?


As someone else pointed out, %FIELDS doesn't handle arrays simply because the OS/400 database doesn't support arrays. The compiler needs to know *which* database field to update. If there isn't a direct relationship between the name specified in the %FIELDS list and the database record, the compiler can't make any assumptions. If some field happens to overlay some database field, well, that just isn't quite good enough.


Note that the field specified in the %FIELDS list may also be a subfield of a LIKEREC data structure, in which case there is a clear relationship, and the compiler can figure out which field in the record to update.

Cheers! Hans



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