Re: using a defined constant to dimension an array

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Hello Joel,

This is a known problem.  It's on my list of "How could they miss this?"  
And they know who they are :-)  The problem is caused because the RPG 
compiler parses the procedures before it parses the global definitions so 
as far as it is concerned any mainline D-specs don't yet exist. (Yet it 
handles F-specs OK ....)

I believe it has been fixed in VRM510.  No PTFs will be provided for 
earlier releases because the change is supposedly too big.

This is up there with:
        o No pointer arithmetic in VRM310
        o %TRIM, &TRIML, &TRIMR not accepting an optional trim character
        o %CHAR not handling numeric data in VRM420
        o INZ(*SYS) and INZ(*JOB) not working for DATE data types defined 
as data structure sub-fields in sub-procedures
        o others that escape my memory at the moment

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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