Re: Data area - working

["James R. Newman, CDP" <cis146@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A friend suggested using the DSPLY to show what if anything was in the data
area.  Turns out the program was getting the data okay.  I moved the field
from the header area of the report to the detail and it shows up fine.
Who'd a thunk it?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James R. Newman, CDP" <cis146@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG List" <RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:19 PM
Subject: Data area


It's been a while since I used a data area and I'm having trouble accessing
it from an RPG program.  I've created an 8 character data area called CUTOFF
that holds a date in yyyymmdd format.  I'm simply trying to read the data
area from the RPG program.  I have an "I" spec that looks like this:

IDTAARA     UDS
                                1    8    CUTOFF

Shouldn't I be able to access (read) the data in the program without doing a
DEFN, etc?  For testing purposes I put the statements above in a working
program and listed CUTOFF as an output field in the header, which should
display the date but doesn't show up.

Do I need to have a RTVDTAARA in my CL?  I know I do if I want to convert it
to a parm and access it in the program that way but, again, I thought if I
wanted to use the data area implicitly I could simply include the "I" specs
and use it like any other variable in the program.

TIA.
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