FW: Decompression program

     TITLE    'Decompress Data';
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* QUNPACK: program to decompress (unpack) string data with    */
    /*          MI assembler functions on an AS/400.               */
    /*                                                             */
    /* INPUT: string to decompress                                 */
    /*                                                             */
    /* OUTPUT: result string, result string size                   */
    /*                                                             */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    ENTRY * (PLIST) EXT;
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* parms are source string, length, result area, length.       */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* NOTE: parms passed as pointers to parameters, not values.   */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    DCL SPCPTR SRC_PTR  PARM;           /* parm 1 = source to pack */
    DCL SPCPTR RST_PTR  PARM;           /* parm 2 = result location*/
    DCL SPCPTR RST_SIZE PARM;           /* parm 3 = result size    */
    DCL OL PLIST (SRC_PTR, RST_PTR, RST_SIZE) PARM EXT MIN(3); /*  */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* (here are the value variables pointed to by parameters)     */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    DCL DD SRC     CHAR(16766191) BAS(SRC_PTR);     /* source string   */
    DCL DD RST     CHAR(16766191) BAS(RST_PTR);     /* result string   */
    DCL DD RSTSIZE BIN(4)  BAS(RST_SIZE);   /* size of result string   */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* template for DCPDATA command                                */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    DCL SPCPTR TEMPLATE_@;                   /* pointer to template    */
    DCL DD TEMPLATE CHAR(64) BDRY(16);            /* DCPDATA TEMPLATE  */
    DCL DD TRESERV1 CHAR(4) DEF(TEMPLATE) POS(1); /* reserved          */
    DCL DD TRSTSIZE BIN(4) DEF(TEMPLATE) POS(5); /* result area size   */
    DCL DD TRSTREAL BIN(4) DEF(TEMPLATE) POS(9); /* real result size   */
    DCL DD TRESERV2 CHAR(20) DEF(TEMPLATE) POS(13); /* reserved area   */
    DCL SPCPTR TSRC_PTR DEF(TEMPLATE) POS(33);   /* source string PTR  */
    DCL SPCPTR TRST_PTR DEF(TEMPLATE) POS(49);   /* result string PTR  */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* if result area size is not > 0, return now...               */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
      CMPNV(B) RSTSIZE, 0 /EQ(EXIT);     /* size > 0 or EXIT now   */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* set passed parameters into template                         */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
      SETSPP   TEMPLATE_@, TEMPLATE;     /* set template pointer   */
      CPYNV    TRSTSIZE,   RSTSIZE;      /* result size to template*/
      SETSPPFP TSRC_PTR,   SRC_PTR;      /* source ptr to template */
      SETSPPFP TRST_PTR,   RST_PTR;      /* result ptr to template */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* Now issue the DCPDATA command.                              */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
      DCPDATA  TEMPLATE_@;               /* compress the data      */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* Now set the return parameter for result string length.      */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
      CPYNV    RSTSIZE, TRSTREAL;        /* return real result size*/
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* DONE.  Now's the time to say good bye...                    */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    EXIT: RTX *;                             /* return to caller   */
    PEND;              /* done w/ program        */

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