File Variable

kumarcoolboy · New User Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 10 Location: Hyderabad

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 ??

Srihari Gonugunta · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:40 pm

Kumar,
Can you please elaborate the requirement? Have you checked the builtin functions related to FILE in PLI?

kumarcoolboy · New User Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 10 Location: Hyderabad

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.

prino · Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:41 pm

No, you cannot display such data (ditto for task, entry and area variables)

Robert

kumarcoolboy · New User Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 10 Location: Hyderabad

ok, thank you very much......

arivazhagan_k · New User Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 57 Location: chennai

Passing FILE variable to another proc is not appropriate. But we use POINTERs to pass the data. it will improve performance also......

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:54 pm

prino · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:55 pm

arivazhagan_k · New User Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 57 Location: chennai

prino · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:25 pm

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:37 pm

to save You the time to look at the manual her is how a file variable is used

arivazhagan_k · New User Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 57 Location: chennai

hi enrico,

Thanks for the valuable clarification.

hi prino,

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