RE: FW: Using PCML from Java to Call C/400 Program

Sorry it took me too long to respond to David's post, I had a stupid problem in my program. I set the value to argv [1] incorrectly.

Yes! David was right. It's working now!
The Parameters should be separated in the PCML file.

Thanks to David and all others


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From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 9:30 PM
To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FW: Using PCML from Java to Call C/400 Program

On 2011/12/28 9:28 AM, David Gibbs wrote:

Although I'm not an expert in C, shouldn't each element of argv be
specified as a separate parameter in the PCML?

So it would be something like ...

<pcml version="1.0"> <program name="myCProg"
path="/QSYS.LIB/MyLib.LIB/MyC_Porg.PGM"> <data name="argv1"
type="char" length="100" usage="inputoutput"/> <data name="argv2"
type="char" length="100" usage="inputoutput"/> <data name="argv3"
type="char" length="100" usage="inputoutput"/> </program> </pcml>

David is correct that you have to define the parameters separately to
PCML. It is just a C convention that program parameters are coded as an
array of pointers. When you actually call a C program, you pass separate
parameters.