Re: Controlling the definition of fields defined like(...)

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Roger Vicker, CCP" wrote:
> ...All I want is to have the most key
> attribute (length and char/number) defined in the database and be able
> to reference it everywhere else (including RPGLE) with exceptions such
> as longer/shorter x digits and zoned/packed the same as we can in DDS.

Roger, if you want to be able to do LIKE definitions of database fields,
but you don't necessarily want the fields for your files to be in a data
structure, the easiest way to do that is to define a separate
externally-described DS that is just used for LIKE definitions.

     Fmyfile  if   e           disk

     D myfile_types  e ds            extname(myfile)
     D                               qualified
     D                               based(template)

      * Define a field like FLD1 in MYFILE
     D somefield       s             like(myfile_types.fld1)