Re: Absolutely neceesary DDS keywords

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

Chris.Chambers@v2music.com wrote:

> ALWROL, INVITE, SLNO(01) and CLRL(*ALL)
>
> SO. . . . my question is - are any of these necessary, will I experience
> problems by not specifying any and what is the bare
> minimum keywords necessary to create a normal functioning screen.

Well that depends on why you used invite in the first place.  If it was to 
handle
screen timeouts, then you can still use it.  Data queues may be a better way to
go on this though.

> I am onlyspecifying ERRSFL, INDARA at file level and only function keys at
> record
> level (apart from windows where OVERLAY is used).
>

Why indicator area?  Are you using COBOL?  If not, then I would say you could do
away with the indara keyword.  Why?  Because in RPG indicator 1 is indicator 1.
In COBOL, without indara, indicator 1 of record 1 is distinct from indicator 1 
of
record 2.  Indicator area places them all in one location within the COBOL
program.b.

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