Re: What am I missing, or free-form data structures and the group data area.

Unless I have missed something, I have found a deficiency in the free-form
data structure definition.

If I want to use the local data area, mapped to a data structure defined by
an external (reference) file (e.g. LDA),
my declaration would look like:

Dcl-DS lda Ext DtaAra(*LDA) End-DS

No problem. But I can't do the same for the group data area (which our menu
system uses).

Dcl-DS gda Ext DtaAra(*GDA) End-DS

generates an RNF3343, which says only *LDA and *PDA are valid.

Have I found something free-from can't do (makes it sort of hard to argue
free-form should be the standard), or am I missing something?

chris@xxxxxxxxx
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