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Summary

You can define a work record to establish temporary storage for a dialog. Elements in the work record describe the data to be stored.

In this chapter, you used the IDD menu facility to create a work record for use in dialog XXXDUPD by performing the following steps:

  1. You defined element XXX-WK-FIRST-TIME to store a single-character, alphanumeric status value. When used in dialog XXXDUPD, this element contains either Y (yes) or N (no). This value establishes whether response process XXXDUPD-ENTER is processing a department for the first time or not.
  2. You defined record XXX-WK-RECORD to contain element XXX-WK-FIRST-TIME.

To see how you use work records and elements in dialogs, proceed to the next chapter, chapter 10, where you enhance dialog XXXDUPD by adding process modules and data definitions to the dialog.