RE: Using %SIZE() on database fields in D-Spec

[Brian.Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Never mind...  :)

I lost track of the original question for a minute there.  This manual
quotation has nothing to do with it.

Brian Johnson
Software Engineer
Help/Systems, Inc.
brian.johnson@helpsystems.com
www.helpsystems.com
(612) 933-0609




From: Brian Johnson on 01/15/99 16:59

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Subject:  RE: Using %SIZE() on database fields in D-Spec  (Document link
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I think this bit from the RPG manual explains things:

"The following rules apply to keyword OVERLAY:

1.  The name parameter must be the name of a subfield defined previously in
 the current data structure,
    or the name of the current data structure."

HTH

Brian Johnson
Software Engineer
Help/Systems, Inc.
brian.johnson@helpsystems.com
www.helpsystems.com
(612) 933-0609




uucp@UUCP1.MCS.NET on 01/15/99 16:53:07

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Subject:  RE: Using %SIZE() on database fields in D-Spec




Buck,

Yes dbfld1 was used in a C-spec. However, dbfld1 was also the field I was
overlaying, so that alone should be sufficient to cause the compiler to
tokenize the field, IMHO.

-Walden

-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro/commsoft [mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 1999 10:56 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Using %SIZE() on database fields in D-Spec



>I am attempting to use the %size() function
>on a d-spec to define a field in ILE/RPG.
>The field in the %size() function is a field
>that is coming from a program file. The
>compiler seems to think that the field
>does not exist.

Walden,
  Is dbfld1 referenced anywhere else in your code, or just on the %size()?
I think that the compiler doesn't include a token for "unused" fields.  Try
a bogus Eval dbfld1=dbfld1 to make the field "used."  Maybe that's why
putting it explicitly in a DS works...

Buck Calabro
CommSoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net














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