Re: Extfile and ExtDesc

Hi Alan


You must be thinking of parameters for system API calls - this is not the same.


From the documentation for EXTDESC -
The parameter for EXTDESC must be a named constant or literal specifying a valid file name. If it is a named constant, it must be defined before the file definition. You can specify the value in any of the following forms: filename
libname/filename
*LIBL/filenameThose forms are a bit misleading, as the final file name has to be uppercase. An actual example has this -



extdesc('MYLIB/MYFILE2')


For EXTFILE, you can use a variable or a literal - the variable needs to contain the entire qualified name. There are more details in the RPG Reference.


Cheers
Vern

On Wed, 7 Aug, 2024 at 9:33 AM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


To: rpg programming on ibm i

Also must be in 10 and 10 I believe so file name in first 10 and library
name in next 10.

On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 7:24 AM Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:

DAMMIT! lol

On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 9:58 AM Jean-Marc DUVAL via RPG400-L <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Hi,

I think It must be case sensitive : 'DTALIB/STYSUMW1'

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I'm getting a compiler error on this DCL-F, External File Definition for
stysumw1 not found. I've confirmed the file is in DTALIB. I've switched
the order of extfile and extdesc with the same results. I've used this
many times but it looks like I've never used QTEMP in extfile before.

dcl-f stysumw1 usropn
extdesc('dtalib/stysumw1')
extfile('qtemp/stysumw1')
rename(stysumw1:stysumw1r) infds(StySuminfd);

Thanks for any help, Art
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