Re: How do I define a RPG400 parameter that is 400 long?

And there are always Craig Rutledge' tools - one of them can create D- and other -specs from RPG/400 once CVTRPGSRC is run - but, oh, well - that would probably be even scarier for the "man in the high castle". (I know, the metaphor is not really right, I just like the book by the name and the series on, what, Amazon?)

Regards
Vern

On 11/17/2020 5:56 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

True - I confess that it is so long since I even coded a d-spec I had forgotten that.

I just couldn't work for a company that was that restrictive (and in this case by "restrictive" I mean stupid.

The thing I wonder about in this case is where did the program that returns a 400 char field come from? And what can you do with an oversized 400 character "field" once you've got it?

On Nov 17, 2020, at 6:47 PM, James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/17/20 3:23 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Nobody is suggesting ILE. But RPG IV in its base form looks just like RPG400 with bigger fields.
There is nothing to learn!

Well, you *do* need to learn how to code declarations in D-spec format, which doesn't exist in OPM RPG.

But that's a good deal more intuitive than the way you had to do it before.

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JHHL

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