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Hardly surprising really - as Barbara pointed out, F-specs just generate I-specs - and they come later.


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On Apr 24, 2019, at 4:09 AM, Paul Bailey <PabloMotte+Midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Barbara,

I have to say that is a little unexpected behavior. If the DCL-F is earlier
in the source than the DCL-S with a %LEN that might reference a field from
it then I would expect that to work. I've added a data structure (using
LIKEREC), and used that in the LIKE in my example, and now the code
compiles just fine.

Thanks for your help.

-Paul.


On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 at 17:38, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2019-04-23 12:06 PM, Paul Bailey wrote:
Thanks Barbara.

The field CURR_1 in my example is defined by a file. (There is a DCL-F
earlier in the source). The RDi outline finds the definition fine, but
the
resulting spooled file from the compile has the correct definition for
CURR_1 in an I-spec further down the source. Are DCL-F definitions done
after the DCL-C and/or DCL-S definitions? If so, is the only way I can
declare a zoned version of a packed file field to hard-code the field
definition?


The fields associated with files are defined by the generated I specs,
so that would be too late for your definitions.

You could define an unnamed (or named) externally-described data
structure to get the fields available earlier:

dcl-ds *n extname('MYFILE') end-ds;

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