Re: DS Group Field Names

Hi Barbara,

Thanks for confirming.

Do you foresee a change that would allow a way to have a long name and
either not using the ... or a way for the next D line to end the
continuation?

Yours truly,

Glenn



Subject: Re: DS Group Field Names
From: "Barbara Morris" <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, March 12, 2014 2:36 pm
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 2014-03-11 16:50, Glenn Gundermann wrote:

...
Example Code 2 - This does not compile. ...

D overChargesLevel1...
D
D y1vrP1 overlay(overChargesLevel1)

Hi Glenn, what's happening here is that y1vrP1 is being used as the last
part of the continued name overChargesLevel1, even with the blank line.
If you look in the cross reference, you'll see an entry for
OVERCHARGESLEVEL1Y1VRP1.

As Kurt says, you'd have to provide something in the fixed-form entries
for overChargesLevel1 to end the continued name. The only thing you
could do would be to code a length and data type, but that defeats the
whole purpose of defining overChargesLevel1 by its overlays.

--
Barbara