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  • Subject: RE: Another V5R1 query... Qualified DSs
  • From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:37:25 -0500


Yes, but you missed the point in which I also pass this back to the program
which called me.  For example I want to send back a message id USR0001, I
set that value.  Now I need to call an API.  Now I take the return back
from that API and update other subfields in my first error structure.

Or another example.  I call an API to perform some function.  The error
structure returns an error.  I decide to handle this one using the message
handling API's, which have their own error structure.  I don't want to have
to move everything out of one structure to a holding area just to say I am
only using one error structure.  The qualified method is like using %found
versus %found(myfile).  More than two lines of code past point of origin,
it still makes sense.

Rob Berendt

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Couldn't you just use the same DS for calling different APIs?  That's what
I
do.  Check the error after the call, then you don't need it any more.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 9:53 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Another V5R1 query... Qualified DSs
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>
> And I have lot's of uses for the new qualified keyword.  For
> example, I
> have programs I've designed to function like API's:  output to a user
> space, pass back the error structure - that sort of rot.  In
> these programs
> I'll have multiple copies of the error code data structure.
> One to return
> back to whom called my program and one or more to use when
> calling various
> API's.  Now instead of having to redefine each subfield, or
> COPY/PASTE,
> COPY/PASTE, I can use the LIKEDS.
>
> With this, /free, and many other fine features of V5R1, I
> can't wait to get
> my production machines up to V5R1.
>
> Rob Berendt
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>  >> What's the difference between:
>
>  >> 1.  using the QUALIFED keyword on a DS
>  >> 2.  specifying PREFIX('dsname.')?
>
>  >> Wouldn't they do exactly the same thing?
>
> No not really.  In the first case the field name does not
> change - it can
> be identical in multiple DSs.  It is referenced via qualification
> CurrentRec.PhoneNo and PreviousRec.PhoneNo.
>
> In the second case the field name is changed by sticking the prefix in
> front of it e.g. PhoneNo becomes CPhoneNo and PPhoneNo.
>
> Effectively it comes out to the same thing (effectiely two differently
> named fields) until you consider that with the qualified
> option you can now
> say that the PreviousRec DS is LIKEDS(CurrentRec) and all the
> fields and
> their sizes and names come along for the ride!
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