RE: U1-8 Switches: Similar to *LDA ?

[Kevin H <KevinH@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks for setting me straight - shows how often i use U1 thru U8
<actually, dont think i have used them since the S36 days>


At 04:56 AM 4/12/2001, you wrote:
> > are you saying that SETON  (or, move *on)  do not work for you ???
> >
> >
> > At 08:01 PM 4/11/2001, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Folks:
> > >
> > > From the *LDA update problem being discussed here, I have a
> > comparable
> > > one using
> > >the Job switches...
> > >
> > >I needed to set on U1...U8, depending on data/user selection
> >  in an RPG
> > >pgm and
> > >call another RPG which will behave depending on how these
> > indicators are set.
>
>I wonder whether this is about something I discovered a while back about
>RPG IV, which is that a module's U1-8 switches are its own _copy_ of the
>job switches; the actual job switches are only updated with the RPG
>values if the RPG ends with LR _on_.  Another solution is to call a CL
>to update the external switches.  This is from the header box of a CL
>module I wrote when I discovered this:
>
>/*       This module can be called by ILE RPG modules to set the     */
>/*       job switches, even if they end with LR off (ending an ILE   */
>/*       module with LR off causes the job switches NOT to be       */
>/*       updated from the U1-U8 indicators, which are the module's   */
>/*       internal copy of the switches).                             */
>
>The CL receives an 8-byte parameter containing the switch values, and
>does a CHGJOB.  I wrote this module in November 1998, so it's not
>something new.
>
>HTH
>
>Cheers,
>
>Martin.
>
>
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