Re: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when using RPG Cycle - Solved

The program is question is a simple report, reading a file and by
specifying level indicators, do some logic when a control break occurs.
Yes, I can and have written my own control break logic when needed, but why
reinvent the wheel when it is already mounted on the car?
To do special logic when a "total" control break occurs, the cycle gives me
"total time" logic that I can use.
I have used the convention of ending free-form, specifying a CL0 If
*InL1 statement in fixed form, then returning back to free-form and coding
the rest of my logic.
The CL0 tells the compiler that I am now in "total" time, and will only
execute the code when the appropriate condition is met.

Thanks to everyone that responded.


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Brian May <bmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On the first point, not always. You can put your mainline logic in a
subprocedure and use the MAIN keyword on the H spec to specify the
subprocedure to be used as the mainline. In this scenario, the RPG cycle
is not invoked, thus eliminating the overhead of the cycle (which I don't
use anyway).

Brian May
IBM i Modernization Specialist
Profound Logic Software
http://www.profoundlogic.com
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Subject: Re: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when using RPG Cycle -
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FREE still uses the cycle, so far as I know. It is us programmers who
have added in the redundant code of the DOW not %EOF loop. Take out that
loop, and so far as I know, you are back to the original RPG cycle.

Setting on the L1-L9 indicators is usually done in the I specs, I believe?
In which case it is probably easier to finish converting the old code and
do your L1 calculations within the Calc specs and use named indicators
and/or conditioned sub routines in place of L1-L9.

If the issue is L0 then my understanding is that L0 is always on and
therefore not relevant to solving any practical programing problems.



On 1/24/2013 5:31 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Well, Jeff, you COULD just write your own level-break processing and
keep it all in /free - I'm almost kidding, it's not the hardest thing in
the world to do.

On 1/24/2013 2:12 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

Thank to everyone that responded.
It appears that (as I presumed) in order to implement this, I indeed

must

break out of /free mode to set a CLx spec to indicate the start of RPG
Cycle Total Time processing. After this statement, I can resume /free

mode

for all other logic and it will be part of the total cycle.

Thanks again.

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