Re: Declaring the same DS in caller and callee

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/02/2009, at 3:35 AM, Kurt Anderson wrote:

> I wish the help for the BASED keyword would mention
> that implicit definition would occur when supplying a Based parameter
> that is not defined elsewhere.  (If it does exist somewhere, someone
> please point it out to me.)


See the Chapter 15 of the ILE RPG Reference (any release supporting  
BASED):

"BASED(basing-pointer-name)
When the BASED keyword is specified for a data structure or stand- 
alone field, a basing pointer is created using the name specified as  
the keyword parameter."

Seems clear enough.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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