Re: Getting the field attributes of a subfile record

[email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)]

Gads, I hate when this happens but a little voice said "redbooks ... redbooks"

I searched a dusty shelf of old RedBooks and found "Writing SAA Applications for
AS/400" GG24-3438 March 1990.

Now I've never done this, but in section 4.4.2 Indicators:

"If the file level keyword INDARA is specified in the DDS, all indicators 
defined
in the record format(s) for the file are passed to and from the program in a
separate indicator area, not in the record area."

<<snip>>

"If the INDARA in not specified, the indicators are included in the record area
of the I/O buffer. ..... The application programmer does not have to worry about
mapping these fields into additional variables defined within the program.  For
programmer productivity, this is a big bonus."

Their words, not mine. :-)

This may be a way of retrieving the indicator settings, don't know, never been
there.

James W. Kilgore
email@James-W-Kilgore.com

david.kahn@gbwsh.mail.abb.com wrote:

> Chandan Singh <SCHANDAN@INDIA.MASTECH.COM> wrote:
>
> >I am delighted seeing such a wonderful working solution. Thank You.
> >But at the same time I am also interested in knowing is there is any
> >system supported data structure for the same purpose.
>
> Chandan,
>
> Sorry, not as far as I know.  :-(
>
> Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.
>

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