Re: *Entry Plist Replacement in Free Format.

Hi Brian

I believe that LIKEDS automatically makes the resulting DS to be qualified.

One way around it might be for the parameter be a character variable with the same overall length as the DS, then set the DS to the parameter. Kinda ugly, I admit!

Probably could have something with a pointer as the parameter - but that has implications of safe handling of parameters. But the DS could be based on the pointer parameter. Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!

HTH
Vern

On 10/2/2014 8:49 AM, Brian Stapleton wrote:

Good Morning Team

Need some Syntax help here please.

This is what I have


Dcl-DS DS01_RC40C0;
D01_Retn Char(001);
D01_Optn Char(002);
D01_Astp Char(001);
D01_Asn Char(020);
D01_TxParm Char(050);
END-DS;


**********************************************************************
C *Entry Plist
C Parm DS01_RC40C0



And I would like to replace the *Entry PLIST with the DCL-PR/DCL-PI, but I am confused with the Syntax since the Parm for the *Entry is a Data Structure.


So I did this:

Dcl-DS DS01_RC40C0;
D01_Retn Char(001);
D01_Optn Char(002);
D01_Astp Char(001);
D01_Asn Char(020);
D01_TxParm Char(050);
END-DS;

// --------------------------------------------------
// Prototype for procedure: Main
// --------------------------------------------------
DCL-PR Main EXTPGM('RC40C0RP');
Arriving_Parms_DS LIKEDS(DS01_RC40C0);
END-PR ;

DCL-PI Main;
Arriving_Parms_DS LIKEDS(DS01_RC40C0);
END-PI ;

**********************************************************************
C* *Entry Plist
C* Parm DS01_RC40C0


And it works, except that now to access the arriving parms, I need to do this Arriving_Parms_DS.D01_Optn, instead of just doing a D01_Optn. (the arriving parms are like a qualified ds)

Is there any way that I can accept an arriving DS, using the DCL-PR/DCL-PI and access the fields of the DS individually without having to access the fields as a qualified data structure?




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