RE: Numeric parameters between RPG progr

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:55 AM 6/1/98 -0400, Hans Boldt wrote:
>OK, let's walk, er talk!  If you want parameter type
>checking, use the right tool - ILE RPG. ILE RPG will
>give you that, plus allow you to define parameters LIKE
>db fields, plus value parameters, and more.
>
>But then again, can't you define parms *LIKE db fields
>in old RPG?  Why not use *LIKE DEFN?

Hans,

This discussion WAS about ILE RPG. The problem was (is?) that the D spec does 
not allow the for specifying the storage type for a numeric field when the 
declaration uses Like() in order to base the field on an external data 
definition. This was a very frustrating limitation in V3R1 (my last significant 
RPG development project). Has this been changed?

Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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