Re: Data Area definition

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

I think that RPG uses an explicit name.  How about if you pass the
information to a CL program that does the retrieve and passes back the
contents?

booth@martinvt.com wrote:
> 
> I would like to pass the name of a Data Area into an RPGIV program so that
> I can recover the information in that data area within the program, based
> upon the data area's name in the Parm.
> 
> Something like:
> 
>    C     *ENTRY        PLIST
>    C                   PARM                DANAME      10
>    C     *DTAARA       DEFINE              DANAME    1024
> 
> Now, obviously this doesn't work.
> 
> But I'd like to be able to pass in a parm with a value of, say...
> "NamesDA", and have the program retrieve the data area named "NamesDA". Is
> this possible?
>
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