RE: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests

Charlie,

>>This would include a new 'DLIST' and 'DFLD' definitions.
>>I know its crazy, but finding whether or not you have those values in a 
>>multi-DS now forces to use an array,  Lookup the value on the array and
>>set the occurrence to the value of the successful array lookup up index.
>>
>You can use a basing pointer to redefine the multiple occurence data
>structure as overlaying arrays.  Do the lookup on the overlaying array to
>get the index and then set the occurence of the multiple occurence data
>structure.  Everything can be referentially defined.
>
>Having said that, I also want the DLIST capability.  But I do not want to
>require the DFLDs to be sequentially specified fields in the data structure.
>I want the equivalent of a logical file index over the multiple occurence
>data structure.

 I'm a little confused here.  Doesn't overlaying a DS w/ an array allow you
to do a lookup or a SORTA on any part of the DS ?  What additional
functionality are we referring to?

 -mark

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