Re: RPG Indicators -- RPG400-L

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At 07:13 PM 04/07/2000 , you wrote:
>I need advice in RPG/400 here urgently. I need to use an indicator to
>control the DSPATR keyword in a RPG program. However, in this particular
>program, all the indicators (from 1 to 99) have been used up. What can I do
>about this?

Reduce your indicator usage ... use flag fields instead of indicators to 
control functions.  Not only does that reduce the indicator usage, it will 
probably make your program easier to understand (as long as your flag 
fields are meaningfully named).

david

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