Re: Subfiles in COBOL

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: <cobol400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: RE: Subfiles in COBOL


> At the same time, I lost several hours because of not one, but TWO
> assumptions.  Rather than waste a lot of time on it, let's just say that
> INDARA is not required in the DDS, and if you use INDARA, you must specify
> "-SI" on your workstation definition.

while it is not required, I have found that it is much easier to deal with
one set of indicators rather than multiple images of those indicators, each
in their own record space.

That way I can map the indicators to meaningful names.

For those reasons, I have always advocated using the SI in COBOL.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - iSeries Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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