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  3. July 2004

RE: Nulls in program described file

 >> 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.

Because of the way in which null field flags are handled, even if you could
do this (you can't) the 30 character "chuck" you wrote out would not be
identical because the null flags would be lost.

If you could give us more information as to _why_ you can't use the external
descriptions and simply use a resulting DS (V5R2) to read the record into
and then write it from there ... it would be much easier for us to suggest
an approach that would work.

Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com

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