Re: SUBFILE FOR NON DISPLAY PROGRAMMING....

["Scott Klement" <infosys@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not certain what qualifies as "subfile-type" field definitions,
but...

Wouldn't an externally defined physical file, or an externally
defined data structure qualify?

And wouldn't they be a better solution?


Tom Hightower/Solutions_Inc <tomh@simas.com> wrote:
>
> Most everything that you can do with a subfile, you can accomplish
>  using a
> data structure.  But maybe Naveen is wanting to do subfile-type fiel
> definitions without having to do them within the RPG program (where
>  you'd
> need to do include a file definition and some *LIKE stmts).  Doing
> something like that could lead to some nice "building-block" coding
>  and
> isn't that what the ILE is all about?
>

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