Re: Reference record format from another pgm

["Scott Klement" <infosys@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

You could use an externally defined data structures to accomplish
this.  Something like:

PROGRAM1:

FCUSTMAS   IF   E           K DISK
D mystruct      E DS                  EXTNAME(CUSTMAS)
C                   read      CUSTMAS                                1
c                   call      'PROGRAM2'
c                   parm                    mystruct
c                   eval      *INLR = *ON

PROGRAM2:

D mystruct      E DS                  EXTNAME(CUSTMAS)
D                                     BASED(p_Parm)
D p_parm          S               *
C     *entry        plist
c                   parm                    blah              1
c                   eval      p_parm = %addr(blah)
c                   dsply                   CustNo
c                   eval      *INLR = *On


Hope that helps...

Scott Klement
Information Systems Manager
Klement's Sausage Co, Inc.



JFinney@omnia.co.za wrote:
> Hi All
> Is there a way ,(besides passing every field in a plist), that a pgm
>  could
> read a file and call another pgm which (perhaps through pointers)
>  could
> reference the data of the recently-read record format from the
>  previous
> pgm. I need to break down a program into managable pieces and do not
>  want
> to have to code plists for 9 files. I also don't want to define the
>  files
> in each respective module.
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Regards
> John.
>
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