What exactly does "predefined" mean?

[Witkopp, Richard]

Exactly. That's why we always defined the items uniquely
at one site I worked at with lots of fillers. FILLER87,
FILLER124, etc. Eventually we would need to clean the filler
areas up for various reasons.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hamilton, Allison [mailto:Allison.Hamilton@Cognos.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:49 AM
> To: 'Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org'; Holland, Michelle
> Cc: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu; Hamilton, Allison
> Subject: RE: What exactly does "predefined" mean?
> 
> 
> Actually, it can be used more than once in a structure so 
> long as you never
> want to access the data at those locations.  PDL will give 
> you a warning in
> most versions of the products for this, but it should still 
> work.  Or -
> create a USAGE yourself for FILLER, there's no reason why you 
> can't create
> your own usages.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org
> [mailto:Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:39 PM
> To: Holland, Michelle
> Cc: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu; Hamilton, Allison
> Subject: RE: What exactly does "predefined" mean?
> 
> 
> 
> <<FILLER is a standard Element, not a standard Usage.  From the online
> books,
> Chapter 3 "Standard Elements and Usages" Description of FILLER:
> 
> A standard element added to a record-structure to make it 
> longer. It can be
> used
> once in any record-structure>>
> 
> Well, FILLER is not very useful then. Not predefined. Can be used only
> once.
> 
> 
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