Re: Simple RPG question (because the docs are worthless)

Did you try using the Index, John?

"operation extender 5-180, 5-183"

You'll find them all listed and explained.

FWIW, my advice would be to download essential manuals as PDF's and use
these as your (local) reference. Faster to access, easier to read and
easier to search. I sympathise with your experience, but IBM's Knowledge
Centre is the major source of pain. Blame the website, not the manual.

Brian.


On 20/02/2018 14:10, john erps wrote:

Hi,

What does the "operation extender" M means I know R and H, but not M.

I tried to look into the RPG docs, at opcode "eval" which seems to me a
logical place to document this, but no. The extenders are mentioned but i
can't find the doc for M (or R or H). When i click "precision rules" i get
to see doc about "operation extender" R.

Man how bad is the RPG documentation on IBM's site. It's terrible.
How on earth is somebody not already having 20+ years of experience in RPG
ever going to find some info. A simple function like "half adjust" is
buried as some "operation extender" (instead of a normal half-adjust
function or BIF or whatever), and the doc on this "operation extender" H
is
almost impossible to find.

Pff, the only thing worse would be no doc at all. Terrible.


Sorry for the rant...

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