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kumarcoolboy

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:00 am
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Hello All,

Can someone tell me if we can display the FILE VARIABLE that is being used in a PL/I program ? If yes, then how ??
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Srihari Gonugunta

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:40 pm
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Kumar,
Can you please elaborate the requirement? Have you checked the builtin functions related to FILE in PLI?
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kumarcoolboy

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:49 pm
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hi Srihari,

I have coded a PLI program where in am using FILE VARIABLE. Am passing this as an argument to a procedure am calling. I just want to know the value that is being passed as the argument i.e. the value in the file variable that is being passed. Hope this helps.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:41 pm
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No, you cannot display such data (ditto for task, entry and area variables)

Robert
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:49 am
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ok, thank you very much......
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arivazhagan_k

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:52 pm
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Passing FILE variable to another proc is not appropriate. But we use POINTERs to pass the data. it will improve performance also......
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:54 pm
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Passing FILE variable to another proc is not appropriate

please explain why not ?
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prino

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:55 pm
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arivazhagan_k wrote:
Passing FILE variable to another proc is not appropriate.


Says who?
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arivazhagan_k

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:19 pm
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please explain why not ?


Suppose file variable holding 10000 bytes instead of passing those bytes information we can pass the pointer. it will improve the program excution speed. If i am wrong i am happy to correct me. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:25 pm
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arivazhagan_k wrote:
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please explain why not ?


Suppose file variable holding 10000 bytes instead of passing those bytes information we can pass the pointer. it will improve the program excution speed. If i am wrong i am happy to correct me. Thanks.


Nuff said, you very obviously don't have a clue what a file variable actually is.

Maybe you should RTFM before you start blabbering away, a file variable has a size of 4 (F O U R) bytes.
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enrico-sorichetti

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:37 pm
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to save You the time to look at the manual her is how a file variable is used

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Use of a file variable also allows you to manipulate a number of files at various times by a single statement. For example:

Code:
DECLARE F FILE VARIABLE,
        A FILE,
        B FILE,
        C FILE;
          .
          .
          .
     DO F=A,B,C;
        READ FILE (F) ...;
          .
          .
          .
     END;


but You could also ... ( given the proper declarations for <some_proc> )
Code:
CALL <some_proc>(A) ;

here is the link
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ratdevz/v7r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ent.pl1.zos.doc/topics/asocds-yyy.htm
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arivazhagan_k

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:43 pm
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hi enrico,

Thanks for the valuable clarification.

hi prino,

Thanks for the correction. I misunderstood file variable with file structure.
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