Re: calling store procedure

Aaron,

no need to create a "junk pf", as the system provides them.

One is called QSQPTABL, and is a single record, single field file, and lives
in QSYS2.
eg SELECT IWAY_TEST1( char(123)) FROM QSQPTABL

another one is SYSDUMMY1 in SYSIBM

cheers
Colin.W
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400"
<java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 3:46 PM
Subject: RE: calling store procedure


> I just got done teaching a vendor how to do this who is trying to sell me
> his product that is suppose to do the same thing :-)
> Check out the below email. . .  HTH, Aaron Bartell
>
>
>
>
> Here is how you make the final call.  Note that you need to have a
reference
> to a file for a SELECT statement to work.  I just created a PF with one
> field.  You can do it from RPG using the SET SQL command but that wouldn't
> make sense to do it form there.
>
> SELECT IWAY_TEST1( char(123)) FROM albartell/junkpf
>
> Here is the code necessary to interface with the below sub procedure.
> CREATE FUNCTION QGPL.IWAY_TEST1 (
> FLD1 CHAR(30) )
> RETURNS CHAR(30)
> LANGUAGE RPGLE
> SPECIFIC QGPL.IWAY_TEST1
> DETERMINISTIC
> NO SQL
> RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT
> NO EXTERNAL ACTION
> EXTERNAL NAME 'EBTOOLS/IWAYSV(TEST1)'
> PARAMETER STYLE GENERAL ;
>
>
>
>
>
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
>       // @Author - Aaron Bartell
>       // @Description - This is a simple sub proc that receives in a
> alpha(30) and outputs a
>       //                alpha(30) field.
>       // @Usage -
>
>
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
>      P test1           B                   Export
>      D test1           PI            30A
>      D  pInput                       30A   Const
>       /Free
>
>        Return pInput;
>
>       /End-Free
>      P test1           E
>
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