Re: Passing Parms

[Eric Hunkins <ehunkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try building a simple RPG program that gets called by the CL, converts
the values to packed and calls the BPCS pgm, a few data structures and a
couple of lines of code and you could be on you way quickly.

CompTech Solutions, Inc. wrote:

>  I am trying to call various BPCS batch programs from within a CL so
> the job can be sumitted at night.  Since most of the batch programs
> now have 2 parm fields of 256 characters with packed data in the
> middle of the string, I am having trouble setting up these fields. Has
> anyone come up with a creative way of getting an 8,0 date into 5 bytes
> in the middle of the parm string within a CL program?



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