RE: What is "BASED(StructureTemplate)"

I have been known to do this when reusing IBM structures from QSYSINC (like
those in QUSLOBJ, for example). Those DS aren't BASED but for my money, a
based structure like the base is much more effective. To boot, the LIKEDS()
results in a QUALIFIED structure, which wasn't available to IBM at the time
of inception of those members. I find Qualified structures to be much more
flexible than their unqualified brethren.

Dennis Lovelady
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Rory Hewitt wrote:

If a pointer is specified in a BASED keyword and it's not explicitly

defined

elsewhere, the RPG compiler implicitly defines it.

Given the name, my guess is that whoever wrote this code probably has

a

number of structures etc. defined as Based(StructureTemplate) -

basically,

it's a placeholder, that's never used.

Now that you mention it, I think I have seen implicitly defined basing
pointers here and there.

The strangest part is that I see it referenced in LIKE and LIKEDS
clauses, but the structures being cloned from it aren't themselves
defined as BASED.

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JHHL

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