Re: Based indicator data structure - indicator undefined

Some people are so rabid about 'Unused' warnings.  "I won't use the /copy
member.  It has variables I don't use.  Instead I'll copy and paste just
what I need."  I just want to thump them on the head.

Rob Berendt

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Peter,

Don't you find it kind of strange, giving a meaningful name to an indicator
and then using it for an internally defined printer file, where you can
only
use its original, meaningless name?  Anyway, you might try to fool the
compiler with a statement like 'N97   SETON  97'.  I knew an S/36
programmer
once, who used this to get rid of 'Unused' warnings that way.

Joep Beckeringh


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Dow" <pcdow@yahoo.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:19 AM
Subject: Based indicator data structure - indicator undefined


> Hi All,
>
> I was trying out the technique from the redbook "Who Knew...":
>
>     d pIndicators     s               *   inz(%addr(*IN))
>     d Indicators      ds                  based(pIndicators)
>     d  LevelBrk              97     97
>     d  FirstPass             98     98
>
> on an old program and discovered that I still have to set the indicators
> used at least once somewhere in the program using the EVAL *IN(97) = *ON
or
> SETON 97 or the compiler thinks it's undefined when the program tries to
use
> it in program-defined output specs:
>
> o          H   N98                     2
> o              N97      LN                 256
> o               97      WSOLNE             256
>
> Or am I doing something wrong? Keeping in mind that I do not wish to
> completely rewrite the program and do not want to create an external
printer
> file, etc.
>
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax



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