Re: What am I missing, or free-form data structures and the group data area.

I'd have free form be a standard rather than using GDAs.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Interesting...in 20 years...never heard of a Group Data Area...

Neither the RPG/400 nor RPG IV manuals mention it.

How do you define it in fixed format?



On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Chris Pando <chris.pando@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Unless I have missed something, I have found a deficiency in the

free-form

data structure definition.

If I want to use the local data area, mapped to a data structure

defined by

an external (reference) file (e.g. LDA),
my declaration would look like:

Dcl-DS lda Ext DtaAra(*LDA) End-DS

No problem. But I can't do the same for the group data area (which our

menu

system uses).

Dcl-DS gda Ext DtaAra(*GDA) End-DS

generates an RNF3343, which says only *LDA and *PDA are valid.

Have I found something free-from can't do (makes it sort of hard to

argue

free-form should be the standard), or am I missing something?

chris@xxxxxxxxx
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