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Hi all,

I believe I have found a problem with the new Array Data Structures in v5r2 and 
wanted to know if anyone else has run across this
yet.

** code snippet **

D parentList      ds                  dim(100) qualified
D   item                        15a
D   qty                          9p 0

D childList       ds                  dim(100) qualified
D   item                        15a
D   qty                          9p 0

 /free

  clear parentList;
  parentList(1).item = stPrdI;
  parentList(1).qty  = stPlgQ;

  clear childList;

 /end-free

When I follow this in the debugger, here is what happens.  The first three 
lines work as expected by initializing all elements in
parentList and assigning values to element 1.  The second clear operation 
initializes all elements of childList but it also sets
element 1 of parentList back to blanks and zeros.

I suspect the compiler is laying out the data structures in alphabetical order 
and the clear operation is clearing too much storage
by the length of one element.  To test my theory, I added another data 
structure as follows:

D dummyList       ds                  dim(100) qualified
D   item                        15a
D   qty                          9p 0

I placed it before the others in the source.  As I suspected, the statement 
that clears childList, initialized element 1 of
dummyList and did not touch parentList.

Is this a known problem?
Is there a fix yet?
If not, how do I report it?

Thanks,
Seth Shields,
Blum, Inc.


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