Re: Long subfield name definition

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple problems here -

1. DS is 1 character off, to the right - of course, that doesn't affect 
the long name, just that it showed up in RDi as incorrect
2. The first part of a continued name has to be within positions 7-21, 
as I just read in the docs - so the following will work -

D myDS            DS
D   SField1
D  Sfield_long_n...
Dame

or, to be a little "prettier", since the first part doesn't have to fill 
position 7-21, and it doesn't have to start at position 7 -

D myDS            DS
D   SField1
D  Sfield_long...
D        _name

If you did have the from/to or length specified, they have to be after 
the last part of the name

This is all so much cleaner (better?) in free-form, IMHO -

dcl-ds myDS;
  SField1;
  Sfield_long_name;
end-ds;

Regards
Vern

On 8/4/2024 2:21 AM, Dave wrote:
> Folks,
>
> How do I code the long subfield name shown below in myDS?
>
> D myDS             DS
> D   SField1
> D  Sfield_long_name...
> D
>
> Each field is already known to the program as they are fields of an
> externally described file, hence no definition is given.