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A variable of pic(8) comp-4 translates into a 4 byte field. Your call is
only passing one byte, so I suspect that might be part of the problem.
Try the call with X'00000050'.

Rich Loeber - @richloeber
Kisco Information Systems
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On 7/20/2012 11:10 AM, Stone, Joel wrote:

How can I pass a the parm below "parm-length" from a CL pgm?

I am trying to get parm-length = 50 (length of parm-data in decimal)

Call PGMA (x'50' 'Jon Doe')

Doesn't work - any ideas?

Thanks


LINKAGE SECTION.
01 parm-length PIC 9(8) COMP-4.
01 parm-data PIC X(1000).

PROCEDURE division using parm-length
parm-data.

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