can we concate fileds in physical file? If yes how can we
do?

Answer Posted / karu

no...concatenation  of two/more fields in pf not possible...


  if you want to do it...it can be possible  with the help of  lf(logical file)



example: eid   concat(jdate name dept)

here eid created with
3 other fields:
they are
joining date and
name
and dept...

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