Re: I-spec example

The solution that is troubling you solves problems where there are different record types in the file (very common way back then). The record ID was just to give you a way to operate on the various record types that you defined. For example, lets say your program only wants records that are for the state of California. You could define a record type "01" where column X="C" and column X+1 = "A" and all other records are ID "99" and then process only "01" records, ignoring all "99" records. You could define various record types for various states and set the record type(s) you want to process with external switches. ahhh... I miss the good old days with smell of External Switches in the air....

Since that is not a part of your problem, then just ignore the whole issue. Its moot.

James H. H. Lampert wrote:

Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't understand the question. I-specs are pretty much always coded the same way... you list the from & to positions of the field, and you list the field name. I'm not understanding what you're looking for?

I think I have the "field description entries" down; my problem is understanding the whole "record idenfification entry" business, about which I'm completely clueless.

There's only one kind of record being read.

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JHHL