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vikas kumar
vikas kumar

Reputation: 21

Changing initial value on input subfile with SFLINZ keyword

I need to change the default value that gets loaded on the screen when we initialize a input subfile with SFLINZ keyword.

At present all character fields are by default loaded with *Blank values. The requirement is to change to this to a non-blank value for one of the fields defined in the subfile record.

Can anyone please help on how we can go ahead in achieving the same.

Thanks & Regards, Vikash Shaw

Upvotes: 2

Views: 174

Answers (1)

jmarkmurphy
jmarkmurphy

Reputation: 11473

The documentation at the knowledgecenter says:

The fields in each subfile record are initialized to blanks for character type fields, to nulls for floating-point type fields, to zeros for other numeric type fields, or to the constant value specified on input-only fields if the DFT keyword is specified.

So as long as the field you want to set a default for is input only, you can initialize it to whatever constant you want by using the DFT keyword. Otherwise you will have to loop through and update all the records with the appropriate value before you display it.

Upvotes: 1

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