Re: Getting the field attributes of a subfile record

email@james-w-kilgore.com (James W Kilgore) wrote:

>"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.

I think this is probably a blind alley. Most RPG programmers are not
familiar with INDARA because the indicators are automatically defined in
the program, and it makes sense for them to be in the record area. In
COBOL, for example, the indicators are not built into the language and it's
easier for a COBOL programmer to define a separate indicator structure than
to have the same indicators defined in multiple records. This is what
INDARA is for, it does not make indicators accessible that were not
accessible before.

Sorry,

Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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