RE: externaly described data area

On Tuesday, June 10, 1997 11:57 AM, Dave Mahadevan 
[SMTP:mahadevan@fuse.net] wrote:
> >  Remember *NAMVAR? <g>  Same thing..
>
> I still dont fathom why IBM did not allow for a variable in *DTAARA, so
> we can dynamically name the data areas.
> Now if you say something like *DTAARA DEFINE XYZ , it assumes XYZ in the
> *LIBL.  What would have been nice is
> *DTARA DEFINE 'XYZ' for the above and *DTAARA DEFINE XYZ where XYZ is a
> variable containing a name.  This way you can make up a data area name
> and stick it in XYZ like    EVAL XYZ = 'MYAREA'  then *DTAARA DEFINE
> XYZ  or better EVAL XYZ = 'QGPL/MYAREA' then *DTAARA DEFINE XYZ
>
> Maybe they already did this in V3R7 !

This kind of feature was asked for intensely for the initial release, 
including for files. We wanted a FILE() keyword on the File spec to allow a 
variable name to be used at runtime--this feature is in VisualAge RPG, but 
I guess AS/400 can't handle it? <g>

The data area keyword should have also supported a variable name. This is 
not in any release or planned for the next one as far as I know.



Bob Cozzi
Bob@rpgdev.net
http://www.rpgdev.net


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