Re: New Built-in function needed

Tee Hee! It's not a 5.1 box..... <VBG>

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com <boldt@ca.ibm.com>
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: New Built-in function needed


>Bob wrote:
>>Hey, IBM.
>>After spending the day converting some old code to more modern looking
>>RPG IV, I've found that we really need an "Overflow" built-in function.
>>Something like:  %OVERFLOW or %OFLOW(printfname) (I supposed just %OF()
>>would be good enough too.)
>>That way I would be able to check for an overflow condition without
>>specifying the OFLIND(*INOF)  keyword on the F spec.
>
>Hey Bob!
>
>If you're looking for more readable code, then you should code
>the name of an indicator variable as the parameter for keyword
>OFLIND.  Maybe it's not as nice as a %OFL BIF, but it's
>something you can do now (in V5R1).  Who knows when a new BIF
>might be added to the language!
>
>Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
>
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