Re: Nulls in program described file

Once upon a long time ago....  It used to be safe to redefine a file and read 
it as an alpha field, or even read parts of the file joining or splitting 
fields.  Nowdays the database manager can't be trusted anymore to lay-out the 
data in the same way you see it with a DSPPFM 

On Friday 09 July 2004 15:11, David C. Shea wrote:
> I have a little RPG program that is chewing on a file.  The file is an
> externally described physical file, but I want to chew on it with a
> program described record I/O.  The file has null values in some of the
> fields in some of the records.  The program blows up when it tries to
> read a record which has nulls.
> 
> For example - I have an externally described file with three fields, 10
> bytes each.  I set up the file as program described, record length 30.
> I create a DS in the program record length 30.  When I read the record
> with some nulls, the program bombs.
> 
> Any ideas?  In this instance I can't use the file as externally
> described.  Trust me on this.  What I'm trying to do is read the record
> in as a 30 byte chunk and write it out to an identical file as a 30 byte
> chunk.
> 
> I can't get at PUBLIB today...
> 
> Thanks...
> 
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