Not shure if this helps, but try COPY DDR-ALL-FORMAT .... PREFIX BY.
More help if you send a copy of your program, i suppose.
Nice holidays.
D


Domenico Finucci
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Da: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Per conto di Robert Munday
Inviato: martedì 24 giugno 2008 17.36
A: COBOL
Oggetto: [COBOL400-L] Externally Defined Files

Greetings from South Carolina.

I am adding a file to a program and thought it would be great if I could define my file with the external fields defined with ALIAS data names. I was trying to avoid creating needless duplicate input specs and thought I could rely on the external definitions. That appears not to be working out for me.

Are the fields in an externally-described file good for anything inside my COBOL program? Will I end up having to create input specs and copy my format into those specs? Surely there must be an easier way.

I'd like to solve this one and turn in a completed program before my gig ends on Friday.



Thanks,


Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Columbia, SC
soon to be somewhere else...


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