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

Hi, Pete --

I'm not really sure why you're calling getOutputDataLength(). This just
returns what you set with setOutputDataLength() (or in the constructor) in
the first place.

As for the value, you seem to be doing an awful lot of conversions. Try:

myPackedVar = ((BigDecimal)
myPackedParm.toObject(parms[5].getOutputData())).intValue();

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James Perkins wrote:

Yes it is. If you don't instantiate the object it's by default set to

null.

It would be luck passing *OMIT to an RPG program if you did not

instantiate

it.

You might not however need to create one for each parameter though.

Maybe

just one for each type. I would need to look into a bit more to be sure

on

that. I don't use program calls like this too often.

Ok. Thanks James. I know I need to instantiate the class. I was mainly
wondering if there wasn't a less kludgey way of getting the returned
value back into a java variable. I need to explain this to some folks
that might find

if (parms[5].getOutputDataLength() > 0)
myPackedVar = Integer.parseInt(
myPackedParm.toObject(parms[5].getOutputData()).toString());
}

a little counterintuitive. I was hoping that going from byte[] to string
to integer was a mistake. Maybe I can write a static function that will
clean it up a bit.

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Pete Hall
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