RE: Data Area definition

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,


You can do this using system API QWCRDTAA (Retrieve data area). As far as
system API's go, it's one of the simpler ones.


Regards,

John Taylor
Canada




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> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 7:09 PM
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> Subject: Data Area definition
>
>
> 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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