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in short words:
AS/400 and all compatible systems (i5. system i, i series, and others I don't remember the names exactly) are passing parms by reference. Caller and callee are using the same storage, defined in the caller. If the declaration of the parms does not match exactly in type and length, unpredictable results may occur. Calling a programm from the commandline, or passing literals, the operating system has to make some assumptions about the declaration of the passed values, as there are:
- all numeric literals are treated as packed decimal 15, 5
- all other literals are treated as char(32) minimum or with it's length.
Using a user defined command for the caller, the exact matching declaration could be defined in the command and the operating system does all needed casting.
D*B
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