Re: Decimal data errors

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You need to modify your programs to specify a DS as the 
> result field on the READ/CHAIN operations.
Hmm. Doesn't that amount to treating the file as 
program-described? Indeed, according to the manual, you 
can only do this if the file is declared as 
program-described.
Hmm. Here's an idea: What if I treat the file as 
program-described, but chain it into (and update it from) 
a DS that's defined using an EXTNAME clause from the file 
in question?
The only thing with this is that if I treat the file as 
program-described, and the structure changes in such a way 
as to change the buffer length, or the positions of fields 
that are of interest to the program, there wouldn't be any 
level-check errors to tell us anything happened to the 
file format.
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JHHL