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1. Define fields A, B and C in the Repository (if not already defined).
2. Define file WRKFILE as a normal LANSA database file in the default data library of the current partition. Then make it operational.
   Note that this version of the file will never actually contain any data.
3. When you want to use WRKFILE in an RDML program, code the following starting lines into the program:

          CHANGE     FIELD(#LIB) TO(*PARTDTALIB)
          EXEC_OS400 COMMAND('CRTDUPOBJ OBJ(WRKFILE) FROMLIB(#LIB) +
                     TOLIB(QTEMP)')
          POINT      FILE(WRKFILE) TO_LIBRARY(QTEMP)

This code will cause a duplicate version of file WRKFILE to be created in library QTEMP (your job's temporary library), and will then "point" all I/O commands involving file WRKFILE to the version of the file in QTEMP.

The best features of using work files in special library QTEMP are:

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