RE: Help needed for command lists within lists and RPGIV

Buck,

Told you I wasn't charging on all cylinders today.  I always define
qualified parameters or lists in RPG as data structures, but I was
having problems defining the DS for this particular parameter.

It just didn't occur to me to check the incoming values in a long string
as an aid to defining the DS.

Worked it out now so many thanks for your help.

Regards,

Gerry Tucker
Technicolor Distribution Services
Wembley, England






-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net]
Sent: 30 October 2001 14:45
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: 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
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