Re: Passing a file as a parameter to a second Program -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Passing a file as a parameter to a second Program
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:37:14 -0500
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On 2013/2/4 4:12 PM, Scott Feddersen wrote:

We do not use LIKEFILE, we use a combination of an Externally described
data structure, LIKEDS and LIKEREC. I have used this instead of prefix
to read into a data structure.

Scott, I think that what you're describing is probably what the OP actually _wants_, which is to pass the data to the called program.

File parameters are intended for a different purpose than passing around the data from one or more record.

Here's an article I wrote about file parameters. At the beginning, it lists some of the reasons you might want to pass a file as a parameter to another program.

http://www.iprodeveloper.com/article/rpg-programming/file-parameters-for-rpg-62662

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