RE: Use of external described DS

We use Hawkeye Pathfinder for this type of information. The HAWKEYE library and product is only on our Development system.

They have a "RPG-FILE" entry in their how-used identifier for these types of External References.

Their DSPPGMOBJ command can outfile the info on a particular program.
I'm not sure how where they capture the External references.
That build may require the source or debug view to be available.

The system may have the library installed. Doesn't hurt to check.

Chris Hiebert
Senior Programmer/Analyst
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Garvey
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:51 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Use of external described DS

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to tell which programs, if any, make use of externally described data structure?
That is, a data structure definition which uses the EXTNAME keyword on the d-spec to defined the sub-fields the same as the externally named file.
I realize this is a compile-time structure definition, but am hoping that there is a way to determine, outside of searching through unavailable source code, whether a file was used in a program just for this purpose.
I thought maybe DSPPGMREF would do that, but can't find any examples.