Re: INTEGER & VARCHAR() on I-specs

It won’t work. No varying option on an I-spec.

Not sure why on earth you are coding I-Specs - why not just use the external description?

You could get the correct definition though by using READ with a DS result field where the DS is defined as:

Dcl-ds MyPF;
ID integer(10);
Text varchar(40);

On Jan 14, 2016, at 3:21 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a DDL-described PF with these columns:
ID integer
TEXT varchar(40)
...

I'm trying to do I-specs for these but I'm having trouble. DSPFFD shows:
ID buffer length 4 buffer position 1
TEXT buffer length 42 buffer position 5

So I did these I-specs:
I I 1 4 0ID
I A 5 46 TEXT

ID seems fine, but TEXT is acting weird. In debug, TEXT shows a blank space before the value which doesn't go away if I trim the field. That makes me think there's some non-displayable character there. I've never defined an INTEGER or a VARCHAR on an I-spec, so I assume I messed something up.


Any ideas?
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