Re: I am short of Indicators

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do you really have 99 fields on one screen?  Reuse the indicators.  I had a 
developer 
that insisted on using a seperate indicator for every file CHAIN, etc.  Just 
reuse the 
indicators.  Indicators are such poor documentation that they're only useful 
for 
immediate I/O, and that is only for screens and printouts.  I don't use 
indicators 
on disk files anymore.





Rajeev_Asthana@paramount.com on 05/18/99 08:07:26 PM
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Subject:        I am short of Indicators

Hi All,

It happens everytime.
My application uses almost every indicator from 01 to 99. These indiactors are
basically used to condition various display attributes of the display files'
fields.
Now when I go to add a new field or add some more display attribute to an
existing field, I find that I have already used up all the indicators, nothing
is left.
Then I go and put lots of Or/And conditions for the indiactors.
But this is not a clean way.
Can anybody tell me if there is a better way to do this?

(Day dreaming : - AS/400 guys at IBM has increased Indiacator length from 2 to 3
thus increasing the indicators from 001 to 999)

Thanks,
Rajeev.


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