Re: Submit a program call

Olsson Erik wrote:

I want to submit a call to a program in batch, and the program needs to take
a number of parameters.
If this was an interactive application I'd create the called program as a
service program, have a prototyped interface for controlling parameters and
all would be fine.

Any better solutions than having the program called via SBMJOB to have a
main function and then manually typecast the parms from argv's char * to
their proper ones (say integers)?

If the parameters aren't all the same type, the argv parameter doesn't have to be coded as an array. It can be coded as a pointer to a struct with pointer subfields of the required type. (Don't forget the "program-name" subfield for argv[0].)

typedef struct
{
char *pgmname;
char *userid;
char *code;
int *custno;
} main_args_t;

main (int argc, main_args_t *main_args)
{
char *userid = main_args->userid;
char code = *main_args->code;
int custno = *main_args->custno;

}