i am overwhelmed by your interest. my "duty" these days is to produce a sequentiel file to one of our consultants. they need some information (not all) about our clients.
one of the files i am reading stores the client's charge rate. For some reason, this code rate is defined as a pic x(02) at the establishment of the policy. In order to know the actual rate charge, i have to add the age of my client to the rate code (witch is the number of years since the policy has been changed or issued). I have no control on these fields. i can't change them, the whole system depends on them.
Now , for each policy, and then for each coverage, i have to produce the rate code. Yes, the field "B" is part of a table. field "NEW" is not related to fild "C".
Well, it is much simpler than it seems.
I think that every thing works just fine (for now). I hope i have been clear.
It took me a long time to answer; i am sorry for that. i hope from one crisis to another, in other words, i have been extremely busy these days. Thanks.