Re: Declaring datastructure for variable file..

Are you dealing with a finite number of files? It is hard to believe that the called program could do anything useful without knowing anything about the file it is supposed to process.

If you could explain what you are trying to do we might be able to offer some options - there are a number of ways to go about it including building and executing SQL statements but without knowing _why_ you want to do this we're just guessing.



Jon Paris

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On Jul 1, 2019, at 2:26 PM, Robert Rogerson <rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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