I believe the answer is in-between your two points of view. Using the
first two indicators you can get;
*OFF *OFF = A
*OFF *ON = B
*ON *ON = C
*ON *OFF = D
Using the third position for indicators 3-99 there would be 96 A's, 96
B's, 96 C's and 96 D's that could be controlled *ON or OFF = 384 fields.
Regards,
Guy
Inactive hide details for "DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"DeLong,
Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"DeLong, Eric" To: "RPG programming on the
<EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AS400 / iSeries"
Sent by: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx cc:
Subject: RE: More than 99
10/17/2008 04:39 PM indicators needed
Please respond to RPG
programming on the AS400 /
iSeries
Mel,
You give up the ability to control all fields concurrently. If each
field were written individually, then your premise is correct.
Eric DeLong
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mel Rothman
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 2:38 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: More than 99 indicators needed
Bruce,
Perhaps I have misunderstood your premise, so please correct me if that
is the case.
Anyway, it seems that 3 indicators can be used to define 8 independent
conditions just as 3 binary bits can represent the values 0 through 7.
For example:
N01N02N03 (0)
N01N02 03 (1)
N01 02N03 (2)
N01 02 03 (3)
01N02N03 (4)
01N02 03 (5)
01 02N03 (6)
01 02 03 (7)
A total of 784 unique combinations can be made, for example, by using
indicators 01 and 02 in the first two positions and using, in turn,
indicators 3 through 99 in the third position.
Mel Rothman
Bruce Vining wrote:
> Agreed and further I "don't think", rather I will guarantee that you
can't take an arbitrary number of independent indicators N (for
arguments sake lets say N = 99) which can represent N (99) INDEPENDENT
conditions and by Anding and/or Oring these indicators get a number of
independent conditions that is greater than N. In fact every time you
And/Or indicators you are REDUCING the number of independent conditions
that can be represented. You can, with Anding/Oring get a huge number
of combinations, but these combinations also have a huge number of
dependencies (which, going back to the original question, will cause
fields tho either print or not print when you desire the opposite
result).
>
> Bruce
>
> Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tom Liotta wrote:
>> I guess that the point I'm making is that _any_ subsequent developer
>> better be very clear on what is going on with this.
>>
>
> And as Bruce Vining pointed out, it doesn't work anyway. I don't think
> there's any way to use 99 indicators to represent any _combination_ of
> 100 truth values. Using the double-indicator scheme would work if you
> only wanted to print out one field, but if you want to print out more
> than one, it's not possible to set on an arbitrary combination of the
> double-indicators without accidentally setting on additional
> double-indicators. Setting the double indicators 0147 and 0254 also
> sets on 0154 and 0247.
>
--
This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing
list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe,
unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit:
http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l
or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
--
This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list
To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit:
http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l
or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The information contained in and transmitted with this e-mail may be
privileged, proprietary, confidential and protected from disclosure. No
privilege is hereby intended to be waived. This e-mail is intended only
for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended
recipient/addressee, any use of the e-mail and/or its contents, including,
but not limited to, dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly
prohibited and may be unlawful, and you must not take any action in
reliance on it. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately
notify the sender and delete the original message and any copies of it
from your computer system. We deny any liability for damages resulting
from the use of this e-mail by the unintended recipient, including the
recipient in error.
midrange.com
