RE: Does anyone use indicators anymore?

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What release did it come in at, and 
can more than one name be overlaid on an indicator that's 
used for more than one purpose?
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The ability to overlay indicators has been around at least since v5r1.
& yes you can give the same indicator as many names as you wish

D IndArrPtr       s               *   Inz(%Addr(*In))  
                                                       
D                 ds                  Based(IndArrPtr) 
                                                       
D Sfl1_Dsp               30     30                     
D Display_Ind           30     30
D  mynewind            30     30




Thanks,
Tommy Holden


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 12:19 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Does anyone use indicators anymore?

"Raby, Steve" <agnictsr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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?

So why not, assuming it's conditioning a PC attribute on 
MYFLD, embed the indicator number in the name, and call it 
something like "PCMYFLD40" or "I40PCMYFLD" or "PC40MYFLD"?

That same basic idea could also be used for an indicator 
used to condition statements or store flags raised by 
calculations.

I'm not directly familiar with overlaying names on the 
general indicators. What release did it come in at, and 
can more than one name be overlaid on an indicator that's 
used for more than one purpose?

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JHHL