RE: ExtendedIllegalArgumentException: parameterList: Parameter value is not valid in ProgramCall.run()

Donald Whittaker wrote:
>    Here is the pcml that I use for call QCDRCMDI.
> Maybe you can compare the two and see if anything
> jumps out at you.

Donald, thanks for that.  While it didn't directly solve my problem, it
was helpful to compare, and see that we had taken a similar approach.  I
noticed that you had "init" attributes for everything, including the
output values.  Did you find that that was necessary?  I tried doing
that to fix my problem, but it didn't help.

In the end I tried adding the optional parameter, and that didn't help.
But then when I re-examined the examples from IBM I'd been working from,
I discovered the cause of the problem.  It seems that if you use in-line
struct elements, like this (some elements removed for brevity):

<program name="register" path="/QSYS.lib/QTNADDCR.pgm">
    <data name="resourceHandle"   type="int"  length="4"  usage="output"
init="0000"/>
    <struct name="qualExitPgm"                            usage="input">
      <data name="exitPgm"        type="char" length="10" usage="input"
init=" " />
      <data name="exitPgmLib"     type="char" length="10" usage="input"
init=" " />
  </struct>
</program>

then you need to have the "usage" attribute on the struct tags, _as
well_ as the data tags within them.  I originally had:

        <struct name="qualExitPgm">
etc.

Adding the usage fixed it.  I'm not now sure whether the "optional"
parameter is necessary or not, but I think I'm going to need it anyway.

Now all I have to do is work out what the commitment control exit
program has to do.

Cheers,

Martin.

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