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

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:01:13 -0400
>From: booth@martinvt.com
>
>You've shocked me.  You can't SETON/SETOFF  U1-U8 in the RPG program? They

>should be settable just like 01-99, unless something has changed  in the
>last 10 years or so....

Booth, you can set them on and off, but the real switches aren't changed
until the program ends with LR on.

Try this little RPG III program.  When you get the command line, do
DSPJOB and check the switches - the first one will still be off.
     C                     SETON                     U1
     C                     CALL 'QCMD'
     C                     SETON                     LR

Me, I think using the job switches or the *LDA are poor techniques
compared to parameters.  You have to forever remember which programs are
using which switches or which sections of the *LDA.  Much easier just to
pass parameters directly, I reckon.

Barbara Morris


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