Re: External Data Areas - Multiple Companies, One Program -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: External Data Areas - Multiple Companies, One Program
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 13:32:19 -0500
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On 2019-02-08 9:55 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:

You can use a variable for the data area, but that variable must be before the program starts. An input parameter would work.

Another option would be to use *LIBL to determine the data area used.

But the variable only needs to be set before the program starts if it's a data-area data structure (UDS in fixed form, DTAARA(*AUTO) in free-form).

If it's being handled with IN and OUT opcodes, the variable just has to be set before the IN opcode.

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RE: External Data Areas - Multiple Companies, One Program , Jerry Adams

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