Comments on: AS400 DSPF Overlay http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-dspf-overlay/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:14:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 28, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-dspf-overlay/#comment-99497 The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 28, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:34:17 +0000 #comment-99497 [...] CharlieBrowne is working on an AS400 DSPF Overlay but runs into some problems. Turns out, he doesn’t need an overlay at [...]

]]> By: The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 22, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-dspf-overlay/#comment-99282 The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 22, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:20:50 +0000 #comment-99282 [...] CharlieBrowne is working on an AS400 DSPF Overlay but runs into some problems. Turns out, he doesn’t need an overlay at [...]

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-dspf-overlay/#comment-99087 tomliotta Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:27:22 +0000 #comment-99087 KEEP often isn’t needed in the dummy format, though I haven’t worked out when it is. It also seems that the dummy format actually needs a field to be defined — I usually just define a blank constant field.

Tom

]]> By: philpl1jb http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-dspf-overlay/#comment-99083 philpl1jb Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:30:18 +0000 #comment-99083 Charlie

Not overlay.

Need a dummy record with KEEP and ASSUME keywords in the original display file. Don’t actually need to do anything with that record.

“Why couldn’t McCovey have hit the ball even two feet higher?”

Phil

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