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One thing that would be useful is the facility that is available in DDS
to define a field like another field, but a different data type

eg

in FILEA

FIELD1                  6A

in FILEB

FIELD2                   S  0   REFFLD(FIELD1 FILEA)

This is often handy when you have a field, customer number for example,
thats defined as Alpha on one file, and zoned on another.
If I could do this in RPG, it would be a great! 

-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 1:34 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: FW: Random




tomh wrote:
>Speaking of COBOL - Hans, any thought on COBOL's CORRESPONDING opcode?

I understand many COBOL programmers like its MOVE
CORRESPONDING statement and miss it when they have
to program in RPG.  We'll probably add the item to
our next "enhancement poll" so we'll see how popular
it is relative to other proposals.  (We're already
thinking of other improvements in the area of data
structures.)

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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