RE: Two Questions.

DSPFFD to an outfile gives the record length in field WHRLEN in every
record.  I imagine there's an api that mirrors the command.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shaheen Ahmed
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:47 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: Two Questions.
>
> I want to say thank you to all who reply my question.
> The reason I asked two questions is because we have some old
> RPG programs where we hard coded the length of the externally
> defined files in a data structure and then use this data
> structure to CALL RPG/CL programs. Whenever we add/change
> fields into these files we have to go to the individual
> programs (RPG/CL) to change the length of the data structures/Fields.
> Now I know I can change my RPG programs to get the current
> record length of the files instead of hard coded length but
> this can't be done in CL programs.
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to ask IBM to allow us to use a
> variable name to define the length of a field or data structur?
> For example in file information data structure (INFSR)
> position 125-126 (binary) keeps the record length of a file.
> (RecLength              125    126B 0) I wish somehow we can
> use the value of RecLength field to define the length of a field.
>     

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