Re: Field interpreted differentlybetweenphysicalandlogical

Jon Paris wrote:
> 
>  >> The DS is externally described and exists solely so that I can reference
> the prototype fields back to the data file.
> 
> This seems like a good idea until you encounter the kinds of problems you
> are seeing!  In practice using LIKE on protos is probably not a good idea on
> the whole.
> 

Jon, I think using LIKE on /copy prototypes is ok, as long as the base
type is defined in the /copy file too, as it was in Ricks' case.

Rick's problem wasn't with the prototype being interpreted differently,
it was with the parameters being passed on the call.  The parameters
were fields from the file which weren't mapped to any
externally-described DS, so they didn't get defined with the exact types
in the file.