Re: saving status inside multiple calls to service program

Read up on the STATIC keyword. When used on your D spec, a local field's
value will be retained between calls.

Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi



"Thomas Garvey" <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
03/17/2011 03:48 PM
Please respond to
Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


To
"'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc

Subject
saving status inside multiple calls to service program






Is it possible to code a procedure in a service program such that it can
retain values from one call to the next? I haven't been able to
accomplish
this and I could cut down on some logic if it can be done.

An example would be: if a flag has not been set (procedure never called
before), retrieve some static values from a database. If the flag IS set,
those values are already set and available for use in the current call to
the procedure.

Thanks

Tom Garvey