Returning data with com.ibm.as400.access.ProgramCall

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Is it really necessary to do this in order to get the data returned into
a java variable? I'm assuming that I need to create an AS400<whatever>
object to act as a template, so I create one for each bi-directional
parameter. Is that right, or am I just making a lot of work for myself?

int myPackedVar = 0;
AS400PackedDecimal myPackedParm = new AS400PackedDecimal(5, 0);
... snip ...
parms[5] = new ProgramParameter(
myPackedParm.toBytes(myPackedVar), 5);
if (myProgramCall.run()) {
... snip ...
if (parms[5].getOutputDataLength() > 0)
myPackedVar = Integer.parseInt(
myPackedParm.toObject(
parms[5].getOutputData()).toString());
}
}

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Pete Hall
pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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