RE: Does anyone use indicators anymore?

Hi Peter

Don't get me wrong I use the Program-to-system field all the time to give more 
meaning to error messages and such, however my own preference is that if 
something is set in a display file you should be able to find that in the RPG. 
To me that is more readable, horses for courses I suppose. If we all did the 
same thing we would be boring and Dutch.  ;-) 

Steve
Only joking Nederlanders, honest!  :-)  

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Onderwerp: RE: Does anyone use indicators anymore?


Steve,

We (or rather I) use named indicators that make the program more readable.

For instance if the screen field is called "S1PARTNBR", and is conditioned 
to reverse-image & PC when indicator 40 is on (in case of an error), then 
position 40 of the INFDS is named something like "err_partnbr".

I find this makes reading the program much easier.

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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But talking about readibility then doesn't that get confusing if you want 
to do a PC and in the display file it is set using 40 and in the program 
its called something else?