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No.

You've got a hard coded size in there.

I mean something like this:

     D myNumFld        s             10p0  

     D myDS            DS                  qualified
     D  myCharFld                      a   like(myNumFld)



Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

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> D                 DS
> D num30                      1        3   0
> D Char3                      1        3
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> You mean something like this?
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> Michael Schutte
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> All,
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> I've got a standalone field defined as packed(3,0).
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> Is there an easy way to define a DS subfiled as char(3)?
> 
> In other words, given any specific numeric field, how can a define a
> corresponding character field large enough to hold the numeric data
> without having to hardcode the subfield size?
> 
> The DS is used to send out an email message.  If there isn't 
> an easy way
> to do what I want, I'll just get rid of the DS altogether and 
> use eval +
> some bifs to build the message.  That may be a better option, but for
> instructional purposes, I would like to show a DS without hard coded
> sizes.
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> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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