Re: Seeking inspiration ...

Jon,

When you say you don't want to use a file, would that be because you don't
want the housekeeping of a file for this purpose? That would rule out all
other named objects as user spaces or user indexes as well.

So, assuming you don't want to use named objects, you could

- Save the LDA, fill the LDA, submit your job, restore LDA - if the
submitted jobs don't use the 'other software';
- Use environment variables. Maybe (never tried it that way) you could
even save a complete data structure as one environment variable and read
the DS from the environment variable in the submitted jobs.

The environment variable route does not meet your requirement that the
information must be available to ANY batch job submitted, you would have
to use CPYENVVAR(*YES) on the submit :-)

Joep Beckeringh


rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 30-07-2012 02:08:12:

Jon Paris

I have a series of programs that need to be able to share some basic
information.

Solution must have similar characteristics to the LDA in as much as
it must be available to any batch job submitted from code running in
interactive or web mode,

BUT there are some limitations:

1) Adding additional parameter(s) is not an option

2) Using the LDA is not an option (other software thinks it "owns" it)

3) Does not involve the use of a file if at all possible.

Everything I have thought of so far falls apart somewhere along the
path - so I'm hoping someone else here has dealt with a similar
issue and can stop me from going round in circles with this one.


Jon Paris

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