RE: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests

Mark:
>>>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?
>
You can only do a SORTA on ONE of the arrays.  You define an overlaying
array to encompass 2 arrays but they must be contiguous.  I want the ability
to sort the arrays by any combination of the arrays, contiguous or not.


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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