Re: Am I crazy, or did something change in the implementation of Runtime.getRuntime().exec()

What version of Java are you running? As of Java 5, the
ProcessBuilder.start() is the proffered method.

That said, there are much better was to invoke native IBM i programs.
You can use the Toolbox or stored procedure calls. These work much
better and are much cleaner.

If you're set on using the Runtime.exec(), I think you should be able
to do something like this.
Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("system FOO/BAR XYZ 123
'this is a test' 'I like spam'");

BTW, that is untested.

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James R. Perkins



On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:18, James H. H. Lampert
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It used to be that if you called

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(
"/QSYS.LIB/FOO.LIB/BAR.PGM XYZ 123 'this is a test' 'I like spam'");

where FOO/BAR is an ILE program, FOO/BAR would get arguments of:
XYZ
123
this is a test
I like spam

But now, it seems like I'm getting:

XYZ
123
'this
is
a
test'
'I
like
spam'

Did something change? I mean, obviously, I'm going to have to either do
some major surgery on the parameters, or rework the calling program to
run the called ILE program through the access classes, but DID SOMETHING
CHANGE?!?

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JHHL
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