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

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You took the words right out of my mouth.  Switches can be a maintenance
nightmare.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 6:21 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: U1-8 Switches: Similar to *LDA ?
> 
> 
> Viji wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 

/*           Big  Snip                                              */

If you really must use external indicators, stick with your CL setting
program.  I would strongly recommend passing parameters instead.  I've found
that parameters are much more flexible and easy to use and debug.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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