Re: What part of an RPG program is re-used?

On 7/5/2011 7:34 PM, CRPence wrote:

On 05-Jul-2011 11:01 , Joe Pluta wrote:

And the user space wins over the user index because I can retrieve
the pointer. There doesn't seem to be a corresponding QUSPTRUS API
for a user index.

Materialize Context (QusMaterializeContext), Materialize Context
(MATCTX), and Resolve System Pointer (RSLVSP) can each get the system
pointer to a *USRIDX. AFaIK the "User Index" external object type [with
user domain] allows the methods supported for an "independent index" to
be used; i.e. those with INX in the mnemonic. One doc reference "User
index considerations" notes "Modify Independent Index (MODIDX) MI
instruction" for a User Index but presumably that meant to suggest MODINX:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/topic/apiref/conIndexCons.htm

I doubt seriously that I would go to this level. I don't program this sort of thing that often, and I suspect that returning to the code months or years from now, no matter the level of documentation, would require some serious work. The user space API and a simple lookup in a based array using %subarr should be what I need.

Joe