RE: Subfile as a procedure

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

In RPG, perhaps yes. But I think you CAN do the externalization in C. 

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From: Bryce Martin <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> Just the other day I was thinking along these same lines. My thought was 
> that if I could soft code the record format in a variable I could move my 
> subfile setup to a sub procedure and just pass the record format in a 
> variable as the parameter that way I wouldn't have to write the same 
> subfile prep code over and over again for each one. Well as I found out, 
> there is not a way to soft code the record format name. I understand that 
> this isn't possible the way the compiler looks at DDS and RPG code when 
> compiling and moving this from a compile time check to a run time check 
> would introduce a new set of possible errors. But this would go a long 
> way to allowing for true procedural programming with ILE. It would give 
> one more reason for people to move towards true ILE programming. So for 
> now I'll just break up the code as best I can and hard code the 'WRITE' 
> statements for each and every subfile. What Jerry suggested is about as 
> good as you can get when externalizing subfile coding. 
>
>
> Thanks 
> Bryce Martin 
> Programmer/Analyst I 
> Ext. 4777 
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