Re: How to do qualified?

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Hopkins wrote:
> Barbara and/or list,
>
> You stated:
>
> > Your character field with a number in it is sort of a data structure
> > with one zoned subfield.  If you define it that way, dealing with the
> > numeric part is easy.
> >
> > D CHAR1        DS           qualified
> > D   numval            5s 0
> >
> >         CHAR1.numval = CHAR1.numval + NUM1
>
>
> Which I understand, but have never had a chance to use. Could you give an 
> example of how I could applied that to this?
> Tried to:
>
> D FXQS(Z)      DS           qualified
> D   WQTYN             15S 0 
>
> But it did not like array for DS. Am I just tired from working till A.M. 
> last night?Or am I just missing something?
> ...

In other words, you want to code an "array data structure", right? 
The syntax for that is:

D FXQS         DS           qualified DIM(10)
D   WQTYN             15S 0

and subfields of the DS can then be referred to like 
"FXQS(X).WQTYN". But such functionality is new to V5R2. An "array 
data structure" is sort of like a "multiple-occurrence data 
structure", but the index must be explicitly coded, and the DS must 
be a qualified DS.

BTW, another of the V5R2 changes is that you can define a subfield 
of a qualified data structure with keyword LIKEDS. That is, 
subfields themselves can also be data structures or even array data 
structures! Coding nested array data structures within array data 
structures gives you the ability to code something that looks just 
like multi-dimensional arrays.

Cheers!