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No.
You've got a hard coded size in there.
I mean something like this:
D myNumFld s 10p0
D myDS DS qualified
D myCharFld a like(myNumFld)
Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
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> size as somenumericfield?
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> D DS
> D num30 1 3 0
> D Char3 1 3
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> You mean something like this?
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> All,
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> I've got a standalone field defined as packed(3,0).
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> Is there an easy way to define a DS subfiled as char(3)?
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> In other words, given any specific numeric field, how can a define a
> corresponding character field large enough to hold the numeric data
> without having to hardcode the subfield size?
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> The DS is used to send out an email message. If there isn't
> an easy way
> to do what I want, I'll just get rid of the DS altogether and
> use eval +
> some bifs to build the message. That may be a better option, but for
> instructional purposes, I would like to show a DS without hard coded
> sizes.
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> Thanks,
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> Charles Wilt
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> iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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> fax: 513-398-1121
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