Re: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests

Hans Boldt wrote:

>The reason I mentioned the idea of relaxed OVERLAY rules is that the
>combination of relaxed OVERLAY rules and OVERLAY(x:*NEXT) should go a
>long way in avoiding database dependencies.  Consider the following
>data structure:
>
>   D  Combined     DS
>   D   Field1                 OVERLAY(Combined:1)
>   D   Field2                 OVERLAY(Combined:*NEXT)
>   D   Field3                 OVERLAY(Combined:*NEXT)
>
>The data structure name COMBINED is implicitly defined with a length
>that is the sum of the subfield lengths!
>

This is fine except Combined must be a data structure.  It can not be a data
structure subfield.

>I just had another wild and crazy idea:  How about if we implicitly
>define overlayed subfields with the appropriate length to contain all
>overlaying subfields?  (I'm not sure if I can convince the rest of my
>team on this one, though!)
>
Hans, could you please explain this further, perhaps with a sample.  I'm not
sure what you mean.


Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net


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