Re: Move an entire PF record

There was just a thread on this...check the archives. Basically, use a
DS with the EXTNAME keyword to identify the physical file, and then
use LIKEDS and PREFIX for a different data structure. Read into the
first data structure, then EVAL (or =) to the second data structure.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:04 AM, John Furniss
<JFurniss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

List,

I've searched the archives for this, but all I could find
was involving SQL, which I am not using. Here is my problem: I have
restored a backup copy of ITEMASB (a Mapics file) to a user library
called JOHN, calling it JITEMASB. I need to write records to this file
from the live file.

I have tried many different variations of the code below
using data structures, renaming record formats, etc, with no luck. The
code looks like this:

0000.01 H Option(*nodebugio:*srcstmt)


0000.02 F***********************************************


0000.03 FFixcostp Ip E K DISK


0001.00 FItemasb If E K DISK


0001.03 FJitemasb UF A E K DISK rename(itemaseb:itemasec)


0001.06 F***********************************************


0006.02 *


0006.14 C Itemno Chain Itemasb


0006.15 C If %found


0006.16 C Eval ITEMASEC = ITEMASEB


0007.26 C Write Itemasec


0007.27 C endif




The compiler chokes on this saying the types in the eval statement do
not match. Is there a way to do this without EVALing each field in the
file? It seems such an easy and basic thing, but I can't figure it out.



Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.



Thanks,



John Furniss

Allied Machine & Engineering, Corp

Phone: 330-343-4283, ext. 8371

email: jfurniss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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