Re: RPG400 SDA query?

Tim Truax wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I am building a AS400 SDA screen and on this screen I am going to have
> an array (6 elements / 30 characters each) displayed.  Well wanting to
> take advantage of the EXFMT opcode to write my screen, I am not able
> to
> give any of my SDA screen fields names like this -- QN,1 or QN,2.. I
> have a hard time believing that I must still do a MOVE of the array
> elements into the hard named screen names like this:
> MOVE  QN,1   QN001
> MOVE  QN,2   QN002
> Etc....
> Any suggestions to this former S36'er appreciated.


Put the fields in a data structure in the RPG program.
Still not as easy as it used to be, but at least you avoid all the
MOVE's.


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