Re: Managing one physical file with several subfile record formats

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave

Should I assume that your physical file is internally described? 
Therefore, you are using fixed format? Free format file descriptions 
have to be externally described.

Anyhow, with internal descriptions, we have I-specs with record 
identifiers - this is old school, I've not used this for decades, I 
think!   :)  And then there would be indicators, IIRC. Nowadays you can 
give names to some indicators, maybe, for this purpose.

I did look at the SFILE keyword documentation - 
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.3?topic=keywords-sfilerecformatrrnfield#fsfile 
- you can see whether there is any way to use variables.

Regards
Vern

On 6/20/2023 9:42 AM, Dave wrote:
> Thanks, that's how we always did it!!
>
> I was wondering if I would end up having to do something like
> when sfl010,
> when sfl020,
>
> for all my read, writes and exfmt or is there anything in the file
> definition specifications that would let me have the format name in a
> variable.
>
>
>
>     - *Subject*: RE: Managing one physical file with several subfile record
>     formats
>     - *From*: "Sean Courtney" <scourtney@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>     - *Date*: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:33:21 +0200
>
> ------------------------------
> Hello,
>
> You just need to add SFILE for each subfile :
>
> workstn infsr(*pssr)
> sfile(sfl010:sn10##)
> sfile(sfl020:sn20##)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Seán
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at 09:20, Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't think it's possible to do this but I'm very much outdated and
> > maybe there's something that can help :
> >
> > FMYFILE  CF   E             WORKSTN
> > F                                     SFILE(MySFRecord:SFRRN)
> >
> > MYFILE is the name of the display file, but MySFRecord would be variable.
> >
> > I have a simple program that reads records from a flat physical file into
> > a subfile, manages these and updates the physical file from them.
> >
> > Now I need to add different subfile record formats and do the same, still
> > managing the same physical file.
> >
> >
> > Thanks