RE: Overlay an External DS - RESOLVED

Thanks Dave,

I had thought that you could do that, must have read it somewhere.  I
think it really boils down to the SQL compiler folks not keeping up with
RPGIV enhancements.

Joel
http://www.rpgnext.com


On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 12:50, Dave Boettcher wrote:
> In addition I found an external name example also:
> 
> D IPARTS        E DS                  EXTNAME(WSINTKPART) OCCURS(50)
> D                                     PREFIX(PT)                    
> D  PTMBR                         2                                  
> 
> Or 
> 
>  D ZLDA          EUDS                  EXTNAME(ZLDA)        
>  D  BEGYMD               710    717  0                      
>  D  ENDYMD               720    727  0                      
>  D  BEGCHR               730    737                         
>  D  ENDCHR               740    747                         
>  D  BEGYMD6              750    755  0                      
>  D  ENDYMD6              760    765  0                      
> 
> 
> Dave Boettcher
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Cochran [mailto:jrc@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:59 AM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: Overlay an External DS - RESOLVED
> 
> 
> 
> > ddsElems        e ds                  extname(elems)           
> > d  array          s             10    dim(4) based(@)
> > d  @              s               *   inz(%addr(dsElems))
> > 
> > 
> 
> This was the solution I ended up using and it works great. I understand
> that part of the problem was that this is an SQLRPGLE program and part
> of the problem *could* be that you can't append an externally defined
> DS.  Can anyone confirm the latter?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Joel
> 
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