RE: qualifying datanames

Try using the PREFIX keyword on the file description line.  Although there
is no MOVE CORRESPONDING in RPG

FFILENAME1  IF      E      K DISK          PREFIX(F1_)
FFILENAME2  IF      E      K DISK          PREFIX(F2_)

Joe Giusto II
Patuxent Publishing Company
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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Mary Koetting [SMTP:Mary_Koetting@mail.mchcp.org]
        Sent:   Thursday, December 31, 1998 12:11 PM
        To:     'midrange'
        Subject:        qualifying datanames

        We're a couple of COBOL programmers converting RPG code. We
standardized our
        datanames because we thought that was 'good'. We are used to
qualifying
        datanames in COBOL and didn't think what it would do to the RPG
code.

        Is there a way of qualifying names in RPG IV? I think the list has
already
        answered this as a 'no' but I wanted to double check.

        Working on the assumption that you can't, what's the best way to
make sure
        that we are getting the value of variable that we expect? Should we
save the
        value and use the new named variable? We don't have the time or the
        expertise to change the flow of the chains/reads.

        Should we rename the fields so that they are unique in each file? We
hate to
        do this because we took great pains to try to cut down the size of
the field
        reference file but would like to know if this is the preferred
method.

        For example, the field containing the social security number, should
it be
        named SSNMED in the medical plan file, SSNDEN in the dental plan
file, etc.?

        Please advise. Appreciate much.

        Thanks.   
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