RE: Building a CL command in a RPG Program (Help!)

The problem with the program I am working with is that it is used very
strangely and must use their way of doing things without breaking it. I
tried to use numeric but didn't work. I am converting it to numeric in the
program that is processing it. That part works fine. Everything works fine
now, of course I would have loved to do it a different way, but because of
way the programs work, I most do it their way. As I said, after I submitted
my question to the group, I figured it out (I was soooo tired, that is what
I get for staying up 'til 12:30 on a work night). 

I figured that the EBCDIC hex code was X'7D'. 

Thanks for all the help from everyone!

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dow [mailto:pcdow@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 3:10 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Building a CL command in a RPG Program (Help!)


Hi Mike,

I hope you took all the suggestions from others into account -- I didn't
catch the part about some parms being numeric (in which case they shouldn't
have quotes) and I also noticed I've been dealing with ASCII too much
lately -- x'34' is an ASCII double quote; x'7D' is the correct EBCDIC value
for a single quote.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:22 AM
Subject: RE: Building a CL command in a RPG Program (Help!)


> All,
>
> After I wrote in I realized that this is how I should have built it. (Man
I
> was tired) That part now works good. The reason for using a CL is because
I
> am modifying a program and I don't want to change how it works (so I don't
> break anything). If I was writing the program from scratch I would have
done
> it differently.
>
> Thanks for all the help!
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dow [mailto:pcdow@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 9:29 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Building a CL command in a RPG Program (Help!)
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> It looks like you're using double quotes in your eval, so the resulting
> command string would be
>
> SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(PGMNAME) PARM("PARM1" "PARM2" "PARM3" "PARM4"))
> JOB(JOBNAME)
>
> which the command processor would not like. The quickest way to fix it
would
> be to use SEU to change all occurrences of " to ''.  A better way might be
> to define a constant called Quote:
>
> d Quote    c            x'34'     or
> d Quote    c            ''''
>
> then change your eval to
>
> EVAL CMD = 'SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(PGMNAME) PARM(' +
>             Quote + Parm1 + Quote + ' ' +
>             Quote + Parm2 + Quote + ' ' +
>             Quote + Parm3 + Quote + ' ' +
>             Quote + Parm4 + Quote + '))' +
>             ' JOB(JOBNAME)'
>
> hth,
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com>
> To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 12:17 PM
> Subject: Building a CL command in a RPG Program (Help!)
>
>
> > I am trying to build a CL call command within a RPG program with four
> > parameters. I cannot get the command to work. I am modifying a program
and
> > for some reason unable to debug it to verify the command is right. What
is
> > the proper syntax for putting quotes around parameters?
> >
> > This is the command I want to call:
> > SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(PGMNAME) PARM('PARM1' 'PARM2' 'PARM3' 'PARM4'))
> > JOB(JOBNAME)
> >
> > This is the code I have to build it:
> > EVAL CMD = 'SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(PGMNAME) ' +
> > 'PARM("' + Parm1 + '" ' +
> > '"' + Parm2 + '" ' +
> > '"' + Parm3 + '" ' +
> > '"' + Parm4 + '"))' +
> > ' JOB(JOBNAME)'
> >
> > The command is being passed to a CL where is then uses QCMDEXC to
execute
> > the command. My program gets a data decimal error because on some of the
> > parameters, it picks up the double quotes as part of the parameter (ex.
A
> > date field would look like "0501200).
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > Mike
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