Anyone, I have a DFSORT question regarding symbol definitions in SYMNAMES. I did check the manual, and I don't think that what I want to do is possible, but here goes...
I have the following symbol defined in a sort record: LAST_NAME,1,20,CH I'm using that symbol to BUILD that field into two different sort record formats (A and B). The field appears in different columns in records A and B. So I have these symbols defined: A_LAST_NAME,*,20,CH and B_LAST_NAME,*,20,CH I can't use the equals sign to denote "use the previous length" within records A and B. What I'm wondering is if there's a way I can assign a length to a symbol (for example), and then use that symbol as a constant length throughout SYMNAMES. I actually did try that, but it failed. It appears that I have no choice but to replicate the constant length of "20" for every occurrence of the "last name" (assuming that I never want it truncated) in every record that it appears. Am I missing something? Thanks so much. David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
