RE: Help needed for command lists within lists and RPGIV

>Given the following portion of a command definition, how do I
>define the
>incoming parameter in RPGIV for the 'Period'???
>
>    Parm       Period                                                 +
>               Type( EPeriod )                                        +
>               Prompt( 'Time period for log output' )
>
> EPeriod:                                                             +
>    Elem       Type( EStrTim )                                        +
>               Prompt( 'Start time and date' )
>
>    Elem       Type( EEndTim )                                        +
>               Prompt( 'End time and date' )
>
>EStrTim:                                                              +
>    Elem       Type( *Time )                                          +
>               Prompt( 'Beginning time' )
>
>    Elem       Type( *Date )                                          +
>               Prompt( 'Beginning date' )
>
>EEndTim:                                                              +
>    Elem       Type( *Time )                                          +
>               Prompt( 'Ending time' )
>
>    Elem       Type( *Date )                                          +
>               Prompt( 'Ending date' )

Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to declare it a very long character
field and use a data structure to map out the individual lists.  There'll be
a two byte binary "element count" in front of each list.  Dump the character
field in hex and you'll see what I mean.
  --buck