Use of subscripts in Easytrieve tables.

bijumon · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:03 pm

Hi,

I would like to know whether we can use subscripts in easy trieve tables, like:

if "EZT-TABLE" is an easytrieve table and say there are 10 occurences,
can i use
COUNT = 1
DISPLAY 'EZT-TABLE :' EZT-TABLE(COUNT)

Or do we need to use the index, i yes the how to use the index, if possible, please provide a sample code.

CICS Guy · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:17 pm

Indexing is data reference that results when CA-Easytrieve/Plus derives a displacement value to correspond to a particular occurrence in a field name defined with the OCCURS option.
For example, if an occurring field is defined as:
DEFINE MONTHWORD MONTH-TABLE 9 A +
OCCURS 12 INDEX MONTH-INDEX

Subscripts are an alternate method available where CA-Easytrieve/Plus performs the index computation.