RE: Populating External DS at V5R1.

That did the trick...

FOBFUPC30 if a e K DISK

DUseDsBFUC30...
D PR
D inDsBFUC30 LikeDs(dsBFUC30)
D CONST

d dsBFUC30 E DS Extname(OBFUPC30)
/FREE

Read OBFUPC30;
UseDsBFUC30( dsBFUC30 );
Eval *INLR = *ON;
/END-FREE

PUseDsBFUC30...
P B
DUseDsBFUC30...
D PI
D inBFUC30 LikeDs(dsBFUC30)
D CONST

D* Local fields
D newBFUC30 DS LikeDs(dsBFUC30)

/free

newBFUC30 = inBFUC30;

/END-FREE

PUseDsBFUC30...
P E

Thanks Lim...

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: April 29, 2008 12:34 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Populating External DS at V5R1.

That is because you are not using the DS in your test program. All
fields in the DS will get populated if you add a subprocedure and try to
pass the DS to the subprocedure.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Rogerson
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:01 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Populating External DS at V5R1.

I'm going to be passing dsBFUC30 to a subprocedure...

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of mprice@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: April 29, 2008 11:54 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Populating External DS at V5R1.

Why would you want data in fields you do not use ??
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