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I was using the RDi help. I thought that was supposed to update on the fly (not be based on the latest install of RDi). I guess not. I now see the pdf with the updated help for Like.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/books/sc092508a.pdf

Back to ExtName:

Another "interesting" (and by interesting I mean non-intuitive) aspect of using a data structure using Extname is that it requires you to specify 'end-ds.' A DS definition using LikeRec doesn't require that, why would ExtName? I'm sure there's some valid reason under the covers, but above the covers I now have to be aware of when to put an end-ds and when not to (when not specifying any subfields in the program).

Interesting that the error message tells me the end-ds is assumed, yet is a level 20 compile error.
RNF0202: THE END-DS IS MISSING FOR A GROUP CONTAINING FREE-FORM; END-DS IS ASSUMED.

Help for ExtName (in the new help document) makes no mention of requiring end-ds. However a webpage I found on the new freeform does mention it:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-ibmi-rpg-support/

Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Application Development, Service Delivery Platform

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6:06 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: DS Subfield in freeform

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Kurt Anderson <Kurt.Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You're right. I didn't think to look at the help for Like. Though I just did and didn't see anything about a supported second parameter.

Are you looking at the right manual?

By Googling, I found this:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/We13116a562db_467e_bcd4_882013aec57a/page/New%20with%20IBM%20i%207.1%20TR%207%20-%20Free-form%20H,%20F,%20D%20and%20P%20statements%20for%20RPG

which is good reading in itself, and which in turn has a link for the full PDF:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/books/sc092508a.pdf

Remember, this stuff was introduced *after* 7.1.

John
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