Re: externaly described data area

[Dave Mahadevan <mahadevan@xxxxxxxx>]

Bob Cozzi wrote:
>  Remember *NAMVAR? <g>  Same thing..

I still dont fathom why IBM did not allow for a variable in *DTAARA, so
we can dynamically name the data areas.  
Now if you say something like *DTAARA DEFINE XYZ , it assumes XYZ in the
*LIBL.  What would have been nice is
*DTARA DEFINE 'XYZ' for the above and *DTAARA DEFINE XYZ where XYZ is a
variable containing a name.  This way you can make up a data area name
and stick it in XYZ like    EVAL XYZ = 'MYAREA'  then *DTAARA DEFINE
XYZ  or better EVAL XYZ = 'QGPL/MYAREA' then *DTAARA DEFINE XYZ

Maybe they already did this in V3R7 !
 
-- 
Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net
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