Re: Decimal data errors

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

"Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The ability to perform I/O with a LIKEDS or EXTNAME DS 
> resulting DS for an externally described file came in
> with (I think) V5R2. 
> And no - it does not
> remove any of the externally described functionality.

Fascinating. I just wrote and ran a test program that 
simulates how the real thing would do as you described. It 
seems to be almost completely transparent.

Found a few gotchas: it needed "*INPUT" on the EXTNAME 
clause, something I'd never seen before, and the online 
manual for V5R2 ain't exactly long on examples of how to 
code this.

I'm still wondering why, in the program that only reads 
from the file in question, the funky field gets completely 
ignored. I'm grateful, but I'm still puzzled.

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JHHL