Re: Submit a program call

Erik wrote:

I want to submit a call to a program in batch, and the program needs to

take

a number of parameters.
If this was an interactive application I'd create the called program as a
service program, have a prototyped interface for controlling parameters

and

all would be fine.

Any better solutions than having the program called via SBMJOB to have a
main function and then manually typecast the parms from argv's char * to
their proper ones (say integers)?

Thanks in advance.

The classic answer is to write a CMD object wrapper and then instead of
SBMJOB CMD(CALL MYPGM (parm1 parm2) do a SBMJOB CMD(MYCMD parm1 parm2)

The classic answer for those who prefer not to write a command (it's
easy) is to remind them that numeric data is passed as packed (15, 5)
and if you structure the called program so its numeric parameters are
packed (15 5) then your SBMJOB CMD(CALL MYPGM (123 456) will work as
expected.

--buck
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