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  3. March 2025

Re: Autogenerate Variables for SQL Usage

Hello Peter,

Am 27.03.2025 um 11:30 schrieb Peter Colpaert <peter.colpaert@xxxxxxxxx>:

If I understand correctly you want to be able to use the field names from
the file without actually opening the file?

I think you can use the EXTNAME keyword for this.

EXTNAME(file-name{:format-name}{:*ALL| *INPUT|*OUTPUT|*KEY|*NULL}) - IBM
Documentation <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_75/rzasd/dextnam.htm>

Hope this helps.

Yes, thanks a lot!!

I found that I've actually used this facility before but completely forgot about it. :-)

For positional RPG IV, it's:

DRCDEXP E DS EXTNAME(FILENAME:RECFMTNAME)

:wq! PoC


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