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"Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The ability to perform I/O with a LIKEDS or EXTNAME DS resulting DS for an externally described file came in with (I think) V5R2. And no - it does notremove any of the externally described functionality.
Fascinating. I just wrote and ran a test program that simulates how the real thing would do as you described. It seems to be almost completely transparent.
Found a few gotchas: it needed "*INPUT" on the EXTNAME clause, something I'd never seen before, and the online manual for V5R2 ain't exactly long on examples of how to code this.
I'm still wondering why, in the program that only reads from the file in question, the funky field gets completely ignored. I'm grateful, but I'm still puzzled.
-- JHHL
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