Re: How to do qualified?

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Boldt wrote:

> 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.

This looks suspiciously like:

typedef struct _MyStruct
{
  int field1;
  char field2;
} MyStruct;

MyStruct myarray[100];

If so, then HOORAY!!!  Time to convince everyone I know to upgrade to V5R2.

James Rich