Re: Add flattened subfields after likeds

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I know the only way to do this is to have the base definition in a /Copy _or_ have the base as an externally described DS because unlike LikeDS you can add additional fields to this.

 
Jon Paris

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On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Voris, John <john.voris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This idea of a BASEDds would be a nice feature.
> Having such a feature in DDS would be nice, too.
>
> Today, I am building an Audit File that will track an existing master file's updates.
> All I am adding are fields like USER and TIMESTAMP, and because of this, I have to list all the Fields in DDS that are in the Master.
> And when I am done, I will not have DSPDBR relationship between the Master File and the Audit File.  
> (The names are similar, but I cannot build a relationship known to the database between the two files.)
>
> - John Voris
>
>
> > Re: Add flattened subfields after likeds
> >
> > no good solution.  something like "baseDS" would be a nice feature:
> >
> >    D TestDS          DS                  baseds(C1DS)
> >    D  ZZ1                           1
> >    D  ZZ2                           1
> >
> > and then allow the derived data struct to be passed to a proc that expects a parm that is likeds the based struct.
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