Re: Overlaying fields within a data structure with an array -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Overlaying fields within a data structure with an array
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:16:30 -0800
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Jon Paris wrote:

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/february03/enewsletterexclusive/8073p3.aspx

HEY, WATCH THE CRACKS ABOUT SEU! Any InfoWindow II terminal, or any good emulator, will give you copy-and-paste, and give it to you IN SEU!

More to the point, if you specify start and end positions for the fields (which is more idiomatic to RPG anyway), there is no need for an OVERLAY keyword (and indeed, with traditional RPG scatter-gather I/O, no need to put fields into the DS other than the ones you're trying to make contiguous, and no need for them to be contiguous in the file).

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JHHL

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