Re: Data Area question

[Paul Tuohy <tuohyp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

It is a documented feature - since you are working in RPG III (shame, 
shame <g>) - from Chapter 11 of the RPG/400 Users Guide Page 267

"For a data area data structure, if the data area exists in a library 
that is specified in
the library list, the data area is copied into the program. If the data 
area does not
exist in a library that is specified in the library list, the name and 
length of the data
structure are used to generate a data area in the job’s temporary 
library (QTEMP)."

Regards

Paul Tuohy
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sjl wrote:
> All -
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> I'm using a data area as a UDS data structure in my RPG program.
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>      IDC4210     UDS                             18
>      I                                        1   8 DSDELN
>      I                                        9  16 DSDOC
>      I                                       17  18 DSDCT
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> In the Initialization subroutine I have:
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>      C           *NAMVAR   DEFN           DC4210
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> This data area does /NOT/ exist prior to running this program.  When running 
> the program in debug mode, it appears that immediately upon program 
> execution, it creates this data area in the QTEMP library.
> The QTEMP library is actually where I want the data area to be created, but 
> I haven't found in the RPG/400 reference the documentation for this 
> behavior.  Is this an undocumented feature?
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> Regards,
> Steve
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