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  3. December 2001

Re: DS Within DS (?)

Mike wrote:
>Is there a way to define a data structure that is partly
>externally-defined and partly internally-defined?

Yes, but you can only add program-described subfields to
the end of an externally-described data structure, not the
beginning.

>Or to have a data
>structure that includes another data structure? Or something??

That might happen in a future release.

The best you could do now is define a subfield LIKE a data
structure, and set the basing pointer of a based data
structure to the address of that subfield.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com

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