Re: Free format D spec question

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug

You got good answers. This is all in new manuals - if you have RDi 9.x, 
it's there in very nice-to-reach form.

Otherwise, 7.1 InfoCenter had it as the updated ILE RPG Reference.

We'll all need to get familiar with those resources, methinks.

Cheers
Vern

On 6/2/2014 4:30 PM, Englander, Douglas wrote:
> I was able to get the PTF installed, and now the source is compiling. Now I have another question:
>
> In fixed form ILERPG, I can define a field LIKE() another field, and tell the system to add two positions to it such as:
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>
>       d ttl_grand                     +2    like(ttl_owner)
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>
> Is there an equivalent syntax for a free format D spec to perform the above function? I want to make a grand total field larger (by two) than the individual fields that it accumulates to prevent an overflow situation.
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> Thank you,
>
> Doug