Re: Indicators

["Buck Calabro" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Program defined attribute fields do not
> support cursor positioning, which is
> half of my requirement.
> Any other suggestions?

There's no magic wand for this yet.  You can eliminate the 'not'
condition issue by using the attribute field and still keep the
indicator for DSPATR(PC) or you can create an elaborate routine to map
the fields to row/column and use the DDS CSRLOC() keyword to position
the cursor.  There are a variety of ways to approach this but they
personally seem like a lot of work to accomodate a convention (set all
dspf indicators off) that seems... unhelpful.

So my final thought is to change the (probably) MOVEA *OFF *IN to a
subprocedure that sets the indicators the way you want them.  The
mainline goes from MOVEA *OFF *IN to callp setDspfInd so the code
remains uncluttered.  The subprocedure can be used via /copy in all of
your programs (a new convention?) if you choose.

I'm not being dogmatic about it; I'm just saying that when a
programming convention makes it harder to get your work done, it may
be time to re-visit that particular convention.
  --buck