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  3. November 2012

OVERLAY in a DS having LikeDS and being based on a pointer

Is it possible to use OVERLAY keyword in the below DS definition (OS is 6.1):

D Ds_DSM00001 DS LikeRec(DSM00001R:*Input)

D Ds_FldListX DS Based(PtrFldListX)
D LikeDS(Ds_DSM00001)
D key 20a OverLay(DS_FldListX)
D key1 10a OverLay(DS_FldListX)
D key2 10a OverLay(DS_FldListX:*Next)

Basically, the first 2 fields in Ds_DSM00001 I would like to redefine as keys for sorting, in that, field key would equal the first 2 fields in Ds_DSM00001 and field key1 would be the first field in Ds_DSM00001 and field key2 would be the second field in Ds_DSM00001.

The above DS I get a compile error on and have tried various combinations, all of which have not compiled.

Thanks for your help.



Jon Marasco
OfficeMax
Sr. Software Engineer
630-864-5101

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