Re: DDS LF select/omit problem

["Mark Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

James,

 Once you go "off format" by doing a SST or CONCAT, you must specify the
fields individually.  It's an old nuisance.

 -mark

> I need to set up a logical file that is uniquely keyed on one of the PF
> fields, but which omits all records in which that field is either blank,
> or starts with an asterisk.
>
> But I find that if I explicitly define a field substringing that field
> (to check for the asterisk), I lose all the PF fields.
>
> If there's a way to do this without explicitly including all of the PF
> fields, I don't remember what it is.
>
> Help?
>
> --
> JHHL