RE: Passing data structure to batch job

Booth,

Are you sure about that? As Chuck pointed out, the local data area (LDA) is
unique for each job. I have never known it to be persistent; i.e., if I
signoff and sign in, the LDA is completely blank. In order for the LDA to
be persistent I would have to say it at signoff and then reload it at sign
in. Which sounds a bit complicated.

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-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:51 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Passing data structure to batch job

Sure. You can even uniquely name them and keep them hanging around from day
to day. (It could keep "last invoice number used" for instance.)

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/books
/c092508602.htm




On 5/24/2012 10:47 AM, Dave wrote:

I'm not following this interesting thread! The LDA of the second job
cannot use the LDA of the first job. Can it?

2012/5/24 David Gibbs<david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 5/24/2012 9:56 AM, Jonathan Ball wrote:

That was my first thought as well. An alternative would be to pass
the data structure as a single large parameter. The submitted job
can redefine the parameter as an internal data structure with
multiple

elements.

The LDA approach strikes me as a little easier.

There could be issues passing a large parameter to a program ...
especially if it's going to be submitted.
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Parameter_passing

Using the LDA is the safest approach, I think.

david

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