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Can you DIM the DS and forget about the MODS all together?

"Array Data Structures

An "Array Data Structure" is a data structures defined with keyword DIM. An array data structure is like a multiple-occurrence data structure, except that the index is explicitly specified, as with arrays."
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/books/c092508602.htm


Timothy Adair wrote:
I've searched the archives and can't find an answer on this. How do you do a Lookup in a multiple-occurrence data structure. This is my first one and I can't seem to find a (good) solution.

Here's my DS:

D Record ds occurs(2000)
D Comp# 4 0
D Prod# 7 0
D CurDat 8 0
D CurPrc 7 4
D Status 1
D GL# 7 0

I am populating this with an SQL cursor loop, and doing Order By the last field, GL#. Now I need to be able to do some kind of lookup on the GL# field and return the element number that gets the hit.

I know I can do something funky, like do a loop that checks each occurrence of the GL# field, or pull the GL# field out of the DS and make it its own array (both ugly), but isn't there a built-in function for this? I tried %lookup but that doesn't compile if it's not an array.

Help? (TIA.)

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