Re: Question on converting a VARLEN field to a CHAR field in a LF -- RPG400-L

+1

I worked at a place once that has a bell that would ring to start work,
stop work and breaks like lunch etcetera.

As a contractor they relocated me to a desk right under this bell.

On the third day I put a chair on my desk, reached the bell and ripped the
wires out.

All the staff around me said I would get the sack.

Management observed people starting work before the bell was due to ring
and finishing tasks before having a break - the bell was NEVER reconnected
and I was not sacked.

Cheers

Don

From: "Jon Paris" <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on IBM i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22/01/2021 01:50 AM
Subject: Re: Question on converting a VARLEN field to a CHAR field
in a LF
Sent by: "RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Personally I'd ignore the management ... but that's just me.

Jon

On Jan 21, 2021, at 4:59 AM, Paul Nicolay <

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wrote:

The same management that will migrate away from IBM i in the future

because they call it outdated !?

Fire the management for lack of vision !
________________________________________
From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Darryl

Freinkel <dhfreinkel@xxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 19:06
To: RPG programming on IBM i
Subject: Re: Question on converting a VARLEN field to a CHAR field in a

Birgitta, I would love to but management will not let me do that.

Thanks.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:59 AM Birgitta Hauser

<Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

What about using embedded SQL instead of native I/O in your OPM

Program?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

(Les

Brown)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"What is worse than training your staff and losing them? Not training

them

and keeping them!"
„Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so

they

don't want to.“ (Richard Branson)

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Sent: Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2021 18:31
To: 'RPG programming on IBM i' <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Question on converting a VARLEN field to a CHAR field in a LF

I have a OPM RPG program that I added a new file to. All the fields in

the

added file are variable length fields.

I need to chain to the file and update a flag in that file.

I cannot compile the program because OPM RPG does not support variable
length fields.

I compiled using CVTOPT(*VARCHAR) but that does not convert the key

fields.

Is there a way to redefine a variable length field as a char field in a
logical file?

Thanks

Darryl Freinkel

A4G

Telephone: 770.321.8562 Mobile: 678.355.8562

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