Re: Free-format question

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter

Have you tried the POS keyword? That has a single parameter, the 
starting position within the DS.

The documentation that came out suggests that OVERLAY can be used as you 
have it here - but the list of keywords for free-form definitions 
doesn't include OVERLAY. I seem to recall Barbara saying something about 
this at a conference - but I could be remembering falsely.

At any rate, your first overlaid field is at position 2, so try POS(2), 
the second one, POS(3).

I would agree if you say that the documentation is confusing.

HTH
Vern

On 5/27/2014 4:20 AM, Colpaert, Peter wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I've been busy converting a program with D-specs to full free-format, but I've encountered an issue which I cannot seem to solve.
>
> Does anybody know how to convert this DS into a Decl-ds structure?
>
>       D DPA_Template_T  Ds
>       D  SclTyp                        1a
>       D  SclLen                        5i 0
>       D   DecPos                       3i 0 Overlay( SclLen: 1 )
>       D   DecLen                       3i 0 Overlay( SclLen: 2 )
>       D  Rsv                          10i 0 Inz
>
> The overlay of the subfield is giving me headaches.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards,
>
> Peter Colpaert
> Software Engineer - PLM Development Team
> IT Operations Cluster Benelux, Philips IT
>
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