Re: Conversion to ILE

[Lo <raikovl1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You were right, Jon. I was actually mislead by the RPG III help-text for
an E-specifications field, that's not even applicable to arrays. Being
no RPG expert, I naturally assumed there should be an explicit variable
type specifier for an RPG III array. Now I undestand this feature has
only been introduced in RPG IV. Or am I wrong again?

Jon Paris wrote:
> 
> ...+... 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ...+... 7
>      E                    D¸M        12  2 0
> 
> I think there's some other cause for the difference you're seeing.  Both the
> RPG III and RPG IV compilers treat this definition as packed - Position 43 (by
> being blank) indicates only that the external format is zoned if the data is
> loaded from an external file.  If the elements show up as zoned in your RPG 
>III
> code there must be some other definition of the elements that are causing
> this.  Since RPG IV would also behave the same way, the only thing I can think
> of is that some of your code is being /COPY'd in and you have not converted
> those members correctly.  Check out the usage of the "Expand Copy?" option.
> 
> If this doesn't help you find the answer, please post a small program (or
> e-mail me a big one) that demonstrates the problem.
> 
> Jon Paris - AS/400 AD Market Support - paris@ca.ibm.com
> Phone: (416) 448-4019   -   Fax: (416) 448-4414
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