Comment on: External DS in free form
Posted: 9 years 6 months 26 days 10 hours 36 minutes ago
Edited: Tue, 30 Sep, 2014 at 09:41:32 (3494 days ago)
Posted: 9 years 6 months 26 days 10 hours 36 minutes ago
Edited: Tue, 30 Sep, 2014 at 09:41:32 (3494 days ago)
The PSDS is a keyword now, rather than just the S before the "DS". I believe when you also have an external file, you can use the EXTNAME keyword, but you have to quote the file name (always). In addition, you can include everything on one line. The following may work for your example:
DCL-DS PgmSts EXTNAME('PGMSTSDS') PSDS END-DS;
Comment on: External DS in free form
Posted: 9 years 6 months 26 days 8 hours 25 minutes ago
Posted: 9 years 6 months 26 days 8 hours 25 minutes ago
The syntax works great. I had this before but I had the PGMSTSDS extname in camel case which caused a compiler error message that it cant find the definition for PgmStsDS...
"SQL1001 External file definition for PgmStsDS not found."
Duh! It needs to be upper case. I guess frustration had set in.
Sorry for the dumb post but reaching out to the wise ones often sets one straight.
GF