Re: Passing a pointer as a parameter. -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Passing a pointer as a parameter.
From: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:41:40 -0400
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Rather than reading the record

> again in the edit routine, I
> thought I could pass a pointer
> to the record layout from the
> file process program.

This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but an older conceptis the shared ODP. You can open the exact same access path and sharethe same file cursor between two programs. Program 1 does a READ andprogram two is positioned to the same record. OVRDBF SHARE(*YES).


  --buck

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