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Why are you using *next at all on the early fields? It has no effect and (as you have seen) can create confusion you. In fact it confuses things so much I'm not absolutely sure what you area trying to do.

This:
D ParmDS DS INZ
D XEnd6 overlay(ParmDS)
D XWeeks overlay(ParmDS:*next)
D xFac overlay(ParmDS:*next)

And this:

D ParmDS DS INZ
D XEnd6
D XWeeks
D xFac

Are identical in effect.

If you are trying to create an array over a set of database fields then use a group field like so:

D XwrkC
D XWrkC1 overlay(XwrkC)
D XWrkC2 overlay(XwrkC:*next)
D XWrkC3 overlay(XwrkC:*next)
D XWrkC4 overlay(XwrkC:*next)
D XWrkC5 overlay(XwrkC:*next)
D XWrkC6 overlay(XwrkC:*next)
D XWrkCA Like(xWrkC1) Dim(6)
D overlay(XwrkC)

This is using *Next the way it should be - to redefine something.

I've written a shoe article on this topic - check out http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/general/D-spec-Discoveries/



On 2013-06-19, at 9:17 AM, darren@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


I'm having an issue creating arrarys over fields in a data structure. I
have something like the following, but the *next function doesn't work with
the arrays. They seem to get their own memory, rather than being overlaid
on the XWrkC* fields. I've seen lots of overlay examples, but I don't see
them specify the actual data structure name in the overlay *next command,
so I'm wondering if there is some restriction I haven't seen yet, where you
aren't supposed to overlay on the data structure itself, but only on the
subfields. In this case, the fields are actually display file fields, but
I've seen this behavior with independently declared fields as well.



D ParmDS DS INZ
D XEnd6 overlay(ParmDS)
D XWeeks overlay(ParmDS:*next)
D xFac overlay(ParmDS:*next)
D XBuyC overlay(ParmDS:*next)
D XPlnC overlay(ParmDS:*next)
D XPVnd overlay(ParmDS:*next)
D XDept overlay(ParmDS:*next)
D XITYP overlay(ParmDS:*next)
D XWrkC1
D XWrkC2
D XWrkC3
D XWrkC4
D XWrkC5
D XWrkC6
D XWrkCA Like(xWrkC1) Dim(6)
D overlay(ParmDS:*next)
D xItem1
D xItem2
D xItem3
D xItem4
D xItem5
D xItem6
D xItemA Like(xItem1) Dim(6)
D overlay(ParmDS:*next)

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