Re: Externally-Described Field used as array name.

Hans,

At 8/24/01 11:03 AM -0400, you wrote:
>This is perhaps the most important enhancement to RPG in
>V5R1, and will likely be expanded on in future releases.  Code
>keyword QUALIFIED on the DS spec, and subfields within the data
>structure are referred to using the DSNAME.SUBFNAME syntax.  This
>is an important enhancement - so important that I believe that
>programming standards in RPG shops should be updated to require
>all data structures to be qualified if possible.

  Will the ability to directly map a file format into a qualified DS be one
of the enhancements?  Until now "EDS" using the file in question would
automatically populate the DS when a record is read.  Is there a way to set
a pointer to the file buffer instead of defining a superfluous DS?

  -mark