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DSPF, DSPF-Format
We required the format description dynamically. Can we retrieve the DSPF source from the corresponding object.

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ASKED: March 4, 2010  2:23 PM
UPDATED: March 16, 2010  11:19 PM
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HI, yes you can retrieve the source by reading the source physical file and the member through a CLP or a RPG program. YOu can retrieve all the lines there one by one. hope this will help. regards ============================================================= If source exists and the source info is stored in the object description:<pre> RTVOBJD OBJ(MYLIB/MYDSPF) OBJTYPE(*FILE) SRCF(&SRCF) SRCFLIB(&SRCFLIB) SRCMBR(&SRCMBR)</pre> That's one simple way to see what it's supposed to be. However, I'd be very wary of relying on the source info if I was needing to determine actual formatting. Instead, I'd call the <a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/apis/qdfrtvfd.htm">Retrieve Display File Description (QDFRTVFD) API</a> to find out what the DSPF itself said. The source might have been modified and not yet compiled or any number of other things could have happened. Tom
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BTW, do you have a way of guaranteeing that it will always be a DDS DSPF? What if it’s a USRDFN user-defined format? What if the screen was built with DSM? What if it’s a UIM application? I use all three at times.

Tom

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