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  3. July 2019

Declaring datastructure for variable file..

Hi All,

I'm creating procedure where I want to pass the file name to the
procedure. So my file declaration in the procedure is...
dcl-f infile disk usropn extfile(pFileIn);

Now when I want to read the file as it's in a procedure I must use a data
structure. How do I define the data structure as the file is unknown at
compile time. I'm thing something like...

dcl-ds inFileDs extname(pFileIn) end-ds;
But it gives me
RNF3523: External description INFILEDATA for data structure is not found;
data structure is ignored.
RNF3608: The parameter for the EXTNAME or EXTFLD keyword must be a
character literal or constant.

How should I be defining this?

Thanks,

Rob

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