Re: Seeking inspiration ...

I suspect that the dislike is misplaced; the concept is ingenious, and the implementation excellent. But the problem comes in application (no pun intended) of the concept. Every application, for example, may want to use the first 10 positions of *LDA for its own purpose. And that's great - works very well, until some other application overwrites those positions with its own preference of data, and then control returns to the original. Now, the data stored there has been overwritten, and the application can exhibit all kinds of problems, from utter failure to poor results.

There's also the possibility of intentionally interrupting values in the *LDA by well-informed (if ethically-challenged) users as per the next paragraph...

Heaven forbid the situation where security data is stored in the *LDA. Suddenly, users who should have no authority may be able to write their own paycheck. Literally.
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Dennis
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Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Someone remind me what's so hateable about the *LDA, especially as in
this case, if it were possible, it would be perfect!

2012/7/30 Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On 2012-07-29, at 11:49 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm assuming it's one set of common info, not unique to each job, and not
updated by the jobs.

It is a unique set of info for each _job_ and is updated by a single program.

_If_ I could use the LDA (much as I hate it) it would be perfect because it is carried into any batch jobs fired off by the web or 5250 job. But I can't use the LDA.

Jon Paris

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