RE: Sorting a user space -- RPG400-L

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No it cannot.
This is a common misconception.
They never change the layout. They create new layouts and add new fields to
those new layouts.
In some rare cases, they do add one or two additional fields to the end of
the data structure, but since they also return the length of that data
structure in the BytesReturned subfield, if you're a good programmer, you'd
check that value anyway.  APIs are meant to NOT break on future releases.
That's why my RPG xTools haven't blow up once due to an IBM API change
during the 5 releases they've been available.

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.


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Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:16 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Sorting a user space

Interesting.  However that can be risky if IBM changes the layout of the 
user space list and you don't add the new fields to your data structure.

Rob Berendt

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