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  3. September 2016

Re: RPG Free (INFDS)

On 9/14/2016 4:01 PM, SReeves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm trying to utilize more Free Form specs and am stuck on something.

Normally for a display file for the INFDS we declare the data structure
(focusing on PAGRRN for this issue)
D INFDS DS
D KEY 369 369
D CURLOC 370 371B 0
D PAGRRN 378 379B 0


So I'm trying to do that in Free Form and have come up with this.
DCL-DS INFDS;
KEY CHAR(1) POS(369);
CURLOC BINDEC(2) POS(370);
PAGRRN BINDEC(2:0) POS(378);
END-DS;


As others have said, INT(5) or UNS(5) (or two UNS(3)) are better.

Just for completeness, if you did want to use BINDEC for some reason, you have to put the number of digits, not the number of bytes. BINDEC(2) only allows values up to 99. BINDEC(4) is the matching free-form definition for your 2-byte B subfield. A BINDEC(4) holds values up to 9999.


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