RE: DDS for DSPF WRDWRAP

My suggestion regarding the use of a VARYING field might not have been
clear: I was thinking of using a program-defined VARYING (maybe with a
%TRIMR) field EVAL'ed into the DSPF 480-character field in the hope that the
compiler would add a trailing attribute to the end of the VARYING data thus
allowing the desired "insert" behavior.

Guth-Pup (www.ltl400.com) and I are headed upstairs to read the "Los Alamos
Primer" (Jake wimped out)...

-rf   

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 3:55 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: DDS for DSPF WRDWRAP

Booth,

On the V5R2 version of InfoCenter, the DDS reference manuals are
available in PDF format, so your best bet might be to download and search
the PDF files.

I took a look in the DDS Reference for display files and VARLEN is not
among the allowable keywords.  I don't think that you can define a
variable length field on a display file.

PDF manuals are here for V5R2:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzahgicprinttoc.ht
m

and here for V5R1:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/info/rzahf/rzahfli0.htm

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
> Subject: RE: DDS for DSPF WRDWRAP
> 
> I defy anyone to learn about varying length fields on the InfoCenter.
> I
> went to the DDS manual, and then decided to search the manual.  Well
> guess
> what - searching the manual is not a choice.   IBM is still on their
> old
> kick of concealing information in the most ingenious ways.
> 
> 
> 
> Here's what I was trying to learn:  How do I use a varying length field
> on a
> display file?  Reeve's answer makes sense, so I defined my physical
> file's
> field as 480, Varying.  The Display file references this field.  The
> dspf
> won' compile.
> 
> 
> 
> Jon & Susan have  a nice discussion on varying that I found through the
> archives but it didn't mention the display file.


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