Re: avoid to use the wrong fields

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you use PREFIX on the F-spec for the file(s) in question the non-qualified fields will not be generated and the compiler will error you if you try to use them.  Would that help?


On 2013-08-08, at 1:15 PM, "p.caroti@xxxxxxxx" <p.caroti@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi 
>
> i'm tryng to use data structure, to store informations about 
> WRITE/UPDATE/CHAIN  both for Data Base files and Display files; example 
> for DSPF i code Data structure for every record format like this:
> D S01Ds           Ds                  LikeRec(S01:*All) Inz                  Sfl
> D C01Ds           Ds                  LikeRec(C01:*All) Inz                  SflCtl
>
>
> then i when i write or update the records S01 or C01 i use :
> write S01 S01Ds;
> or
> ExFmt C01 C01Ds;  
>
> but with this tecnique, i have the problem that i have to remember to
> prefix all my file's fields as,   if I use "customer_code" instead of 
> "S01Ds.customer_code"  the program is generated with success, but the 
> data is not (in this example) displayed in the screen. Is there any 
> tecnique to avoid this or i'm wrong in something ?  do you use this 
> tecnique ?
>
> Thanks in advance for you suggestion. 
>
>
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