RE: DDS for DSPF WRDWRAP

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

On the V5R2 version of InfoCenter, the DDS reference manuals are
available in PDF format, so your best bet might be to download and search
the PDF files.

I took a look in the DDS Reference for display files and VARLEN is not
among the allowable keywords.  I don't think that you can define a
variable length field on a display file.

PDF manuals are here for V5R2:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzahgicprinttoc.ht
m

and here for V5R1:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/info/rzahf/rzahfli0.htm

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
> Subject: RE: DDS for DSPF WRDWRAP
> 
> I defy anyone to learn about varying length fields on the InfoCenter.
> I
> went to the DDS manual, and then decided to search the manual.  Well
> guess
> what - searching the manual is not a choice.   IBM is still on their
> old
> kick of concealing information in the most ingenious ways.
> 
> 
> 
> Here's what I was trying to learn:  How do I use a varying length field
> on a
> display file?  Reeve's answer makes sense, so I defined my physical
> file's
> field as 480, Varying.  The Display file references this field.  The
> dspf
> won' compile.
> 
> 
> 
> Jon & Susan have  a nice discussion on varying that I found through the
> archives but it didn't mention the display file.