Re: RE: Help Calling a C program From CL

On Apr 12, 2005 3:03 PM, Chris Wolcott <cwolcott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you are going to go to the effort of using a C function, why pad with
> NULL?  If you know the length just use this:

Thats just it. The length is not know inside of the C code only the CL.

> C could write EBCDIC to a DB/2 file and CL can open and read that.  You
> could also use a *DTAQ or *DTAARA via an API and CL can read either of
> those just also.

These methods just seem too complex.
Based on this feedback I plan to call this and other C code from a sql
user defined function.
  - Null and trim is taken care of
  - Can also be called from CL 

-Thanks for everyones input
Steve More