RE: Stuck on what the free form equivalent shou;ld be

Jay,

You're assuming that the first fixed form example is the original. It is not. That is Jon's example of how he would have done it in fixed form.
Let me show you in chronological order

Original poster:
D ebcdicDS ds
D charChannel 1 1a
D ebcdicChanel 1 1u 0

Jon's fixed form version:
D ebcdicDS DS
D charChannel 1a
D ebcdicChanel 3u Overlay(charChannel)

Jon's free format version:
Dcl-ds ebcdicDS;
charChannel char(1);
ebcdicChanel uns(3) Overlay(charChannel); End-ds;


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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jay Vaughn
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 9:22 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Stuck on what the free form equivalent shou;ld be

Jon, where are you seeing the from/to?

Jay

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 9:16 AM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well most of us wouldn't have used from/to to begin with which is
perhaps why you are not seeing examples.

If you had coded it this way:

D ebcdicDS DS
D charChannel 1a
D ebcdicChanel 3u Overlay(charChannel)

The conversions is now a bit more obvious i.e.

Dcl-ds ebcdicDS;
charChannel char(1);
ebcdicChanel uns(3) Overlay(charChannel); End-ds;

You know you have two spellings there for channel right?

Since you are in position 1 of the Ds you could also code both fields
as being Pos(1) - but there's no need.


Jon Paris

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On Jan 16, 2019, at 8:42 AM, Alan Shore <ashore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi everyone
We are on V7r3
I have vowed to use free form in anything new that I create or
changes

to any existing programs

However, I am at a loss as to the following data structure I have to
use

in a new program

From an existing program, the data structure is

D ebcdicDS ds
D charChannel 1 1a
D ebcdicChanel 1 1u 0


I would be very grateful for any help on this



Alan Shore
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