Re: more based() %addr array questions!!! found my problem:

["Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara,

I agree, maybe a little misguided, if only for reason of consistancy.
If pointers can be implicitly defined, then variable string and integer
types should also - should one want to be consistant.   Having to
explicitly define all variables is a great feature of the language.  it
greatly reduces keystroke error such as these.

The only reason I found it was because I was re-reading my emails and thier
responses and spotted the error.  at first I thought I'd miskeyed it on the
email and was going to post a correction - but I had copy/pasted it from
the code.

Thanks,

Rick

>my pointer was not set because I misspelled my pointer variable name -
>$QxChkBase should have been $QzChkBase.
>
>which begs the question - how did my program compile?  $QxChkBase is not a
>valid variable or pointer.

Rick, it's a "feature" of the ILE RPG compiler, that you don't have to
explicitly define a basing pointer.  It's not an accidental feature, but
it was misguided in my unofficial-not-speaking-for-IBM opinion.

Barbara Morris