Re: IP Address Conversion using an IBM API

Terry,

There are 2 sites that I know of.

(1)  IBM's documentation
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/index.htm
(2)  The more user-friendly http://klement.dstorm.net/rpg/socktut/x213.html

The 2nd one talks about doing twos-complements.  I don't think we should
have to go there.

Looking forward to your results.  Your help is deeply appreciated.
 Thanks. -- Jay

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Winchester Terry" <terry.winchester@raymondcorp.com>
To: <cobol400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: RE: IP Address Conversion using an IBM API


> Jay,
>
> Comments inline.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Sulzmann [mailto:jsulzmann@HBS-INC.COM]
> > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 10:28 AM
> > To: cobol400-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: IP Address Conversion using an IBM API
> >
> > Terry,
> >
> > In the process I have "nomonoprc" but not "apost".  Can that make a
> > difference?  I normally use "apost" when I write code; this piece was
> > downloaded from a site.  He uses double-quotes for all his
> > literal; in an
> > effort to get this thing running; I just made the necessary changes.
>
> Sorry, I should have removed the apost....its not needed.
>
> > Also, I'm using pic s9(9) binary as the pic clause for my
> > return-code; I'm
> > just calling it ApiReturn.  Noticed you're using s9(09); that makes me
> > wonder if s9(9) could be generating bad code?
>
> No, this should have no impact.  My mental code generator
> prefixes a zero to all single digit PIC clauses ;-)
>
> > One other thing.  The original had been compiled as a module
> > and included in
> > another object resulting from a CRTPGM.  Since we're calling this one
> > directly, I opted for CRTBNDCBL to run in QILE.
>
> Yep, sounds right to me.  If I get a chance, I'll try a test
> program this afternoon.
>
> I'm still at a loss regarding the API description.  Do you
> have a link to an online source for the description? The
> API manual/redbook for Unix_Type API's points to an unknown
> IBM site (nothing new here).
>
> > Appreciate your suggestions.  Any further insight would
> > surely be welcome.
> > Thanks.  -- Jay