Re: Calling RPG supProc with *NOPASS parm

Simon Coulter wrote:
> 
> I wrote a little test program to use this API to invoke RPG service
> program functions and always received -1 as the result of %PARMS. From
> this I presume the API is not passing operational descriptors.
> Interestingly the RPG documentation for %PARMS does not mention that -1
> indicates no descriptor was received so this is useful to know.
> 

It's true that -1 indicates no descriptor was received, but zero or
greater doesn't conversely indicate that a descriptor _was_ passed.  The
%PARMS documentation does mention that the value can't be trusted in
cases where the descriptor wasn't passed.