RE: READC and *INPUT datastructure

"What you want is LikeRec. The code snippets below demonstrate how to

use the 6.1 file template/local file/record DS capabilities, the last line
is the ReadC operation you want to use."

That's the type of coding I'm attempting to do. I think you'll find,
however, that your LIKEREC...*INPUT only brings in fields defined as input
capable.
On another note, I was using external data structures rather than LIKEREC
datastructures, because I thought that when you used a qualified file, that
the record format were undefined. I'll have to experiment with that
concept some more, maybe that would be a little better looking if it works.