Re: Sharing *DSPF Record Formats

On 13/12/2008, at 6:59 AM, Coyle, Stephen F. wrote:

I gave it a shot but I still get a session error.

Not surprising. I did not properly read your initial description. This is the key sentence:

I also do not want to display the format in either program A or B.

You cannot READ a format that has not been written to the display. It doesn't exist. If program B did not actually WRITE the format to the screen then it has neither populated nor built the format--all it's done is load some program variables. Unless those program variables are in storage common to A and B (passed by reference from A to B) it is not possible for A to access them.

Perhaps you could get B to WRITE to the screen with DFRWRT(*YES) in which case the format won't be displayed until a subsequent READ is performed. This might make the format available for reading by A but even if that worked it's a stupid way to achieve your end.

Find a better way.

a) Passed parameters
b) Data area
c) Data queue
d) Message queue
e) Database file

etc. Anything would be better than pursuing this idea.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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