Re: Externally Defined Data Structure Qualified

Hi Danny -

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:09:48 +0000, Danny Hayes
<Danny_Hayes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The program fills up all of the fields for the write, this is when I need to 'store' the record so it is not in any DS, because I cannot create a base DS due to the fact that several of the files used in this program have the exact same field names, so when it tries to create an externally defined DS it says this field is already define, you cannot use it here (sort of).

I'm confused about whether or not the fields to be saved are in a data
structure. Your original post implied that they are, however the
above implies that they are not.

If they are, you can save the data structure into a plain old
character field by just EVALing field = data_structure and restoring
by just EVALing data_structure = field. It's not necessary to save
the data structure into another data structure.

You can define the save field as LIKE the data structure so that the
length of the field will automatically follow the length of the data
structure.

Ken (retired)
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