Re: Data Area question -- RPG400-L

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Hi Steve,

It is a documented feature - since you are working in RPG III (shame, shame <g>) - from Chapter 11 of the RPG/400 Users Guide Page 267

"For a data area data structure, if the data area exists in a library that is specified in
the library list, the data area is copied into the program. If the data area does not
exist in a library that is specified in the library list, the name and length of the data
structure are used to generate a data area in the job’s temporary library (QTEMP)."

Regards

Paul Tuohy
ComCon
www.comconadvisor.com www.systemideveloper.com

sjl wrote:

All -

I'm using a data area as a UDS data structure in my RPG program.

IDC4210 UDS 18
I 1 8 DSDELN
I 9 16 DSDOC
I 17 18 DSDCT

In the Initialization subroutine I have:

C *NAMVAR DEFN DC4210

This data area does /NOT/ exist prior to running this program. When running the program in debug mode, it appears that immediately upon program execution, it creates this data area in the QTEMP library.
The QTEMP library is actually where I want the data area to be created, but I haven't found in the RPG/400 reference the documentation for this behavior. Is this an undocumented feature?

Regards,
Steve

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