RE: Data Area definition

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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