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On Friday 31 August 2001 09:03, Njal Fisketjon wrote: > john smith wrote: > > One interesting use would be to have a 'calleable > > generic file display program'. Thus the generic field > > could be a , say, 70 char line on a subfile display. > > Then calling this generic pgm with a file name as parm > > > > (from within another interactive pgm) would display a > > sub-file screen with the records of the file being > > displayed. This generic pgm could then return the > > record being selected from the subfile to the original > > pgm for further processing. I hope you get the idea. > > This is possible if you use a program described file. > Couple this with the QUSLFLD API (or DSPFFD), and you can do it! Which is what I was suggesting back in the 'Field Contents by Reference'[1] thread as one of my free utilities[1] does exactly this. Currently the data is formatted for output to a .csv file, but it wouldn't require much to convert it to a display file routine. Regards, Martin [1] http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200108/msg00063.html [2] http://www.dbg400.net/crtcsv.html -- martin@dbg400.net / jamaro@firstlinux.net http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
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