Re: DOW vs DOU

Believe the ability to define your own named indicators has been 
announced for V4 - although it may be V4R2 - still, 1998.



On Sun, 25 May 1997 boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:

> You just hit a sore spot with me   -  I agree completely with you,
> actually.  The sore spot has to do with indicators in general.  01 through
> 99 is limiting.  Yet IBM has never really provided a standard programmer's
> alternative.  I've thought there could have been a logical data type that
> could be declared, or something like that.  (I am a bit hazy about it  - 
> that's why I wish they'd have dealt with it.)   But if we could declare
> our indicators in the new D specs, and their purpose, then we could use
> them in the same exact fashion as 01 through 99 in place of *INxx.  
> 
> Something like:
> 
> D  CRok           I           IND           (IND is for "logical
> INDicator") D* CRok = *ON = the indicator for "customer's CRedit is ok"
> 
> See what I mean?  Of course that's easy to duplicate but 50 programmers
> will each have their own version.
> 
> 
> In <970525180650_74711.77_BHW34-1@CompuServe.COM>, on 05/25/97 
>    at 02:06 PM, John Carr <74711.77@CompuServe.COM> said:
> 
> #I'd cut off the hands of programmers (just kidding,... kinda) who use the
> #SETON or SETOFF instead of MOVE *ON, *OFF for that reason.  Left hand
> #indicators. are the same problem
> 
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