Re: RNF7701 - Data structure not allowed

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 18:13 -0600, Scott Klement wrote:
> >     d Q             e DS
> > EXTNAME(WMERLGP:WMERLG:*INPUT)
> >     d                                     QUALIFIED
> 
> You can't read directly into a DS that's uses a file's external definition 
> like this in V5R2.  (You can, however, in V5R3)
> 
> IIRC, the documentation for V5R2 said that you could, but in reality you 
> couldn't.  The docs were wrong.  Instead, you have to use LIKEREC.  Using 
> LIKEREC the definition of the Q data struct would look like this:

Yeah, the docs must have been majorly wrong.  I can't seem to get any
sort of 'private' read on V5R2.  

* EXTNAME doesn't work, give RNF7701
* Internal DS, length 108 (same as WMERLGP) gives RNF7701
* LIKEREC compiles, but won't allow QUALIFIED or PREFIX, therefore it's
not a private read and won't suit the purpose.

Unless there's something I'm missing, it seems quite broken.


Thanks.

Regards,
Rich