At 02:42 PM 4/2/98 -0500, Stigers, Greg  ~ AND wrote:
>I want to be able to dynamically create a (numbered) file with
>particular attributes. I thought that by specifying OPTIONAL in the
>SELECT statement, this would not be a problem, so long as I specified
>the build paramaters elsewhere.

The keyword "optional" indicates that the file may not be present and only
has an effect on reading.

>I am having difficulty finding the
>elsewhere, where I specify, for instance
>FILE99;REC=-123,,F,ASCII;DISC=999999. Of course, I thought that this
>would be easy to find... Would the build parameters come after the the
>filename in the WORKING STORAGE description of the USING identifier? Or
>in the ASSIGN?

You need to issue the file equation before you run the program.  A "build"
will work as well, of course.