Re: program described workstn file:

[Ken Sims <mr3111@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott -

> > Huh?  Unless there is an override, the program will attempt to open a
> > display file with the same name that it is defined with in the program,
> > just like any other file.
> >
>
> In RPGII (Sys/36) it will use a filename like "program name + FM" no
> matter what you call the file on your F-spec.
>
> I haven't done a program described file since RPGII, has that behavior
> changed?  (I hope it has!)

I haven't worked in the S/36 (real or emulated) in many years.  The crap I 
have to work with is RPGIII code written like it was RPGII.

In the iSeries / AS/400 environment, program-described files use the file 
name given in the program; they do not go making up their own name.

At no point did Booth say that he was working in a S/36 environment of any 
kind; at least not that I saw.

Ken
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