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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2381.0. "Merge directives in Merge_list" by KAOFS::M_FETT (alias Mrs.Barney) Mon Mar 08 1993 21:20

    I am Merge/Merge_list ignorant and would like a few pointers.
    Having stumbled through a customer example I have a question:
    would Merge directives i.e. specifying field length <field:leng>
    and <&tab> work in a Merge_list operation?
    
    Doesn't seem to work the way I'm doing it........
    
    and the customer, who seems to have more experience, complains 
    it doesn't work either.
    
    Help?
    
    Monica
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2381.1BRUMMY::MARTIN::BELLMartin Bell, NTCC, Birmingham UKFri Mar 19 1993 08:4612
Monica,

sorry, but the <&TAB> and <DATASET.FIELD[KEY]> type entries do not
work in MERGE_LIST operations. You can only include fields from the
list file.

The MERGE function _can_ use these entries.

What are you actually trying to do? Is the MERGE_LIST essential for
some reason?

mb