RE: I am short of Indicators

I think you may be putting too much on the display file to begin with.
Does someone have to read these displays?

Ken Slaugh
Senior Programmer/System Analyst
AS/400 Professional Network Administrator/MSE
Specialist - Client Access/400
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rajeev Asthana [SMTP:Rajeev_Asthana@paramount.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 5:27 PM
> To:   rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      I am short of Indicators
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> It happens everytime.
> My application uses almost every indicator from 01 to 99. These
> indiactors are
> basically used to condition various display attributes of the display
> files'
> fields.
> Now when I go to add a new field or add some more display attribute to
> an
> existing field, I find that I have already used up all the indicators,
> nothing
> is left.
> Then I go and put lots of Or/And conditions for the indiactors.
> But this is not a clean way.
> Can anybody tell me if there is a better way to do this?
> 
> (Day dreaming : - AS/400 guys at IBM has increased Indiacator length
> from 2 to 3
> thus increasing the indicators from 001 to 999)
> 
> Thanks,
> Rajeev.
> 
> 
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