David FOXWELL wrote:
> I'm having trouble understanding what difference based(TEMPLATE) makes.
It is just the same as any other BASED() structure. No memory is
allocated by the compiler for myDS. There's nothing special about
TEMPLATE in this case, except that it is meant to be obvious to other
programmers that the DS is not meant to be used directly, only as a
basis for LIKE() defining.
Sorry to be so dumb, but, I scanned the whole of the RPGILE reference manual for TEMPLATE and didn't find it.
At V6R1, there is a new keyword which lets you define a data structure
as a template. One of the benefits over the workaround method above is
that you can use the INZ() keyword on the DS subfields.
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