Re: prototyped fields & global field definitions

["David Prowak" <prowakd@xxxxxxx>]

Well, I think that I just answered my own question.
 
>From the ILE RPG REF:
Any items defined within a subprocedure are local.  If a local item is
defined with the same name as a global data item, then any references to
that name inside the subprocedure use the local definition.

So any reference to FIELD_1, uses the local definition.  That explains why
the
value that I was passing into PROC_A  was showing up properly when I
examined my code w/debug, but the globally define FIELD_1 wasn't reflecting
this value.
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> From: David Prowak <prowakd@emi.com>
> To: midrange list <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Subject: prototyped fields & global field definitions
> Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 2:48 PM
> 
> Hi,
> In a procedure I have
>       D PROC_A                PI
>       D FIELD_1                       12
>       D FIELD_2                         8
> In the same procedure, I have a DSPF file 
> defined globally (that is, the F spec comes before the procedure B
> statement).
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> In the DSPF file, I have FIELD_1 defined as a program-to-system field.
> 
> I'm trying to get the FIELD_1 that is passed in when PROC_A is called
> to be sent to the DSPF in the form of the program-to-system field.
> 
> When the procedure runs, FIELD_1 does not reflect the value of
> FIELD_1 that was passed in with the call to PROC_A, and the compile
> lists message ID
>  *RNF7031 - name is not referenced 
> for the FIELD_1 definition listed  with the DSPF field references.
> 
> I thought that having the DSPF defined globally was relative to
> the compile unit, so that any fields defined locally within
> that same compile unit would be aware of the global definitions.
> That's not the behavior that I'm witnessing.
> Can anyone clear up my misconceptions?
> TIA,
> Dave
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