Re: Parameters passed not what is received

Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Peter,

I think I understand what you're saying, that's why I included the
message written to the job log.  The parms look like they are being
passed correctly so why are the values being combined?  It looks to me
like a parameter mismatch but if it is I'm not seeing it.  Maybe
something isn't honoring the end of parameter marker?

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Levy
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:29 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Parameters passed not what is received

The error you're getting is because pSubLine is declared as "varying"
and the first two bytes of the parameter do not have a valid
binary length. The string begins with "CPW" but in the dump
it shows that it actually begins with "W", so clearly the
first two characters were mistaken for the length. The binary
of EBCDIC letters "CP" converts to
50135 decimal, which is a lot larger than the 40 bytes you've
declared it as and that's why you're getting the error. This
would work fine if you had one ILE RPG program calling
another because the compiler would catch the error and
possibly perform a conversion, but with a straight CALL
command there is no checking or converting.

What surprises is the very next parameter is also declared as
"varying", but it doesn't exhibit the same behavior in the
dump that the first parameter did, which is very strange.

Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm having a problem with parameters on a submit job

command built in

my RPG program.

The submitting program is building the following submit job command
string.  I have the program send the string to the job log as a CPF
message so I can have a copy of how it was formatted.  The

submitting

program runs in batch normally.
sbmjob job(lo1800r) cmd(call lo1800r ('008' '123456789' 'CPW'
'EMAILBKNG'  'CPW Booking Error for 123456789' 'Booking encountered
the following error(s) for application 123456789.'))

Looks good so far.  When the job runs, however, I receive the
following
error:
Message ID . . . . . . :   RNQ0115       Severity . . . . .

. . :   99

Message type . . . . . :   Inquiry

Date sent  . . . . . . :   10/25/06      Time sent  . . . . . . :
10:02:45


Message . . . . :   Length of varying length variable is

out of range (C

G D
  F).

Cause . . . . . :   The length of a varying length character or DBCS
variable
  is less than 0 or greater than its declared maximum length in RPG
procedure

LO1800R in program RCHEVA1/LO1800R at statement 015100.

Looking at a dump of the program the values used at line 151 are as
follows.  Note that PSUBLINE now contains additional

information.  It

looks like it has picked up the beginning of field

PPREMSGTXT.  Both

of these values are passed as parms.

PPREMSGTXT            CHAR(128)            'Booking encountered the

following error(s) for application 123456789. ' 81 ' ' VALUE IN HEX

'C29696928995874085958396A495A38599858440A38885408696939396A68
9958740859

99996994D'X 41

'A25D408696994081979793898381A389969540F1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8F94B400
0000000000

000000000'X 81

'0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000

000000000'X 121 '0000000000000000'X

PSUBLINE              CHAR(40) VARYING     'W Booking Error for

123456789 Booking e' VALUE IN HEX

'C3D7E640C296969289958740C5999996994086969940F1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8F
94040C2969

692899587'X 41 '4085'X

Prototype from submitted program:
     d LO1800R         pr                  ExtPgm('LO1800R')

     d                                3a

     d                               15a   Const

     d                               10a   Const

     d                               10a   Const

     d                               40a   Varying Options(*VarSize)

     d                              128a   Varying

     d                                     Options(*Nopass :*Omit
:*VarSize)
     d                              128a   Varying

     d                                     Options(*Nopass

:*VarSize)

Field definitions in submitted program:
     d LO1800R         pi

     d  pBank                         3a

     d  pACFApp                      15a   Const

     d  pKeyKind                     10a   Const

     d  pKeyValue                    10a   Const

     d  pSubLine                     40a   Varying Options(*VarSize)

     d  pPreMsgTxt                  128a   Varying

     d                                     Options(*Nopass :*Omit
:*VarSize)
     d  pPostMsgTxt                 128a   Varying

     d                                     Options(*Nopass

:*VarSize)

Field definitions in submitting program:
      // Call to e-mail program

     d SbmJob1         c                   'sbmjob

job(lo1800r) cmd('

     d SbmJob2         c                   ')'

     d SbmJob3         c                   ' log(4 0 *msg)

logclpgm(*yes)' d Call1 c 'call lo1800r ('

     d CallCmd         s            384a

     d emKey1          c                   'CPW'

     d emKey2          c                   'EMAILBKNG'

     d emSubLine       c                   'CPW Booking Error for'

     d emSubject       s             40a   Varying

     d emPreMsgTxt     s            128a   Varying

     d emPreMsg        c                   'Booking

encountered the -

     d                                     following error(s) for
application'
     d Qte             c                   x'7D'

     d QteSpcQte       c                   x'7D407D'


Submit:
            // Send error e-mail

            If Status = '02';

              emSubject = emSubLine + ' ' + %Char(pbAppNbr);

              emPreMsgTxt = emPreMsg + ' ' + %Char(pbAppNbr) + '.';



              CallCmd = Call1 + Qte + Bank + QteSpcQte +

                        %Char(pbAppNbr) + QteSpcQte + emKey1 +
QteSpcQte
+
                        emKey2 + QteSpcQte + emSubject + QteSpcQte +

                        emPreMsgTxt + Qte + ')';



              SendEMail = SbmJob1 + %TrimR(CallCmd) + SbmJob2;

              SndPgmMsg(MsgID :MsgF :MsgDta@);

              PrcCmd(SendEMail);

            EndIf;


Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Rick


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