Edmund,
The following snippet is a mapped named indicator example (there are other methods):
// named indicators
D p_Indicators S * Inz(%Addr(*In))
D indicators DS Based(p_Indicators)
D In01thru65 65A Overlay(indicators)
D inputUL 1N Overlay(indicators: *Next)
Whereas, this is a local program indicator:
D entryHasRoll S N
entryHasRoll is used in a true boolean fashion for local program logic only and does not relate to any *INxx usage. I can understand the complexity involved in attempting to chase named indicator usage back to some *INxx or overlay structure, so this could be a tall order.
Our new RPG code rarely uses traditional indicators to interact with DDS as UI & reports (do people actually still use these) are done via web technologies. It would be nice to see traditional indicators diminish and named boolean variables (i.e. named indicators) appear appropriately in Variables (er, I mean Fields).
Does this help?
Daron
-----Original Message-----
From: Edmund Reinhardt [mailto:edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 12:39 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] To be under Indicators or not to be
Daron,
About jumping to variable definitions. This is the type of thing that is enabled with this new live support. It was not delivered in 8.5 as we were just aiming at parity. But it should be coming soon. As much I would like to tell you more, I am not legally allowed to.
Can you help me understand what you mean by mapped named indicators vs local program indicators?
Regards,
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From: Daron Whitehouse <dwhitehouse@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 10/01/2012 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] To be under Indicators or not to be
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Edmund,
I prefer them as they are under Indicators as this is where I'm accustomed to looking for them. But if we could split hairs, I'd ultimately prefer true indicators and named fields which are mapped as indicators to appear under Indicators and local program indicators (Booleans) to be under Fields. Furthermore, it would be helpful if indicators and mapped named indicators could be a different color.
Someday - maybe it's already there in 8.5 - we can press F3 and jump to the indicator definition as is done in the Java, EGL, etc. editors.
Thanks,
Daron
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-----Original Message-----
From: Edmund Reinhardt [mailto:edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12:36 PM
To: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WDSCI-L] To be under Indicators or not to be
Ken's question about where in the Outline view to find named indicators has stirred things up a bit.
We would like to know if there is a strong preference to move Named indicators under the Fields heading so that all fields can be found in one place and only predefined indicator usage being shown under the Indicators heading.
On the other hand would anyone be upset about not finding the Named indicators under the Indicators heading any more?
IBM is listening.
Regards,
Edmund (E.H.) Reinhardt
COBOL IDE on AIX, DDS, WebFacing, System i Application Development, Rational Developer for Power
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contact AIX COBOL:
8200 Warden Ave
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