Re: Free form PSDS *PROC

The organization of the free-form information is very clear in the help for RDi 9.0.1 - the latest fix-pack. There's a section dedicated to free-form there, right after the Language Reference and before the Programmer's Guide.

Infocenter itself doesn't have anything, so we have to go to the update RPG Reference PDF, to which there IS a link in Infocenter.

The PDF is, as suggested here, a little difficult to use for the free-form stuff, although there is a "What's New Since 7.1" that is very helpful.

Also, changes for 7.1 are marked with a hash (#), while those since 7.1 are marked with a vertical bar (|) - at least, it seems that way - I didn't find a legend this time for the meaning of the 2 symbols - maybe at the end of the manual.

So for me, the best place to find documentation is the help for RDi after you update to 9.0.1.

Vern

On 12/18/2013 1:02 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 12/18/2013 1:42 PM, darren wrote:

The other suggestions, omitting the data types I had tried and failed in
the compiler. This was one I had not tried yet, but sadly, it also fails.
Pgm char(10) pos(*PROC);

RNF0202: THE PARAMETER FOR KEYWORD POS MUST BE A NUMERIC CONSTANT BETWEEN 1
AND 16773104

DCL-DS pgm_stat PSDS;
status *STATUS;
routine *ROUTINE;
library CHAR(10) POS(81);
END-DS;

Taken directly from the new RPG manual, page 5-80. I grant you that
locating this wasn't as intuitive as I'd hoped... it's not in the error
handling section with the rest of the PSDS information; it's in chapter
5 'Specifications'. All the new stuff is in there... And there are
also some examples of fully free elsewhere in the manual as well.
--buck