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john smith wrote: > One interesting use would be to have a 'calleable > generic file display program'. Thus the generic field > could be a , say, 70 char line on a subfile display. > Then calling this generic pgm with a file name as parm > > (from within another interactive pgm) would display a > sub-file screen with the records of the file being > displayed. This generic pgm could then return the > record being selected from the subfile to the original > pgm for further processing. I hope you get the idea. This is possible if you use a program described file. Couple this with the QUSLFLD API (or DSPFFD), and you can do it!
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