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

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting...in 20 years...never heard of a Group Data Area...

Neither the RPG/400 nor RPG IV manuals mention it.

How do you define it in fixed format?



On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Chris Pando <chris.pando@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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