Re: Free form PSDS *PROC -- RPG400-L

Huh, I wonder if I could reproduce what you did to make it work. Right
now, I've got no help, and my PMR contact says he's out until 1/7/14. I
might give your method of switching the help method to local in 9.0 before
updating to 9.0.1.

From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/18/2013 02:47 PM
Subject: Re: Free form PSDS *PROC
Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Ah I remember now - it's only been a couple days, right, since you
pointed that out here?

When I did the update to 9.0.1, it did ask if I wanted to set something
for the help - I think I set it to local.

Then I went into the content part of Help in Preferences - the content
item for help from the web was disabled, the one for local was enabled -
I switched that around, and now it works as I had it.

I wish the update had never asked about the help - hey, don't change
what I have unless it's REALLY needed!!

Cheers
Vern

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

After the update to 9.0.1, my "help" became unusable, much as it did when

first when to 9.0. So, I've fallen back on the PDF as you've referenced
until that gets resolved. PMR open.

From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/18/2013 02:40 PM
Subject: Re: Free form PSDS *PROC
Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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

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

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