Re: ACCESS to IFS

I didn't think abou that,  my problem was losing data by other processes 
because the
full 32000 was not reserved.  This might do it though.  I will try it. The 
problem was
not the program in these cases, it was other programs stepping on these 
parameters.
But with the * it might be reserved.  I will try it.

Scott Klement wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Harry Williams wrote:
>
> > The parameters for the IFS read API returns the Data which must be defined 
>at a
> > max length.  Defining this max length makes RPG init this when the program 
>is
> > loaded. If you define the parm at 32000 for a read, then the program must 
>init
> > this field when it is loaded.  Is there a way of getting the information 
>without
> > reading the data, just getting the pointer?
> >
> > Moving the pointers is faster than moving the data.
> >
> > If I define the field at say 512. Then it should return the correct pointer
> > location for the data, but I do not think all the data will be guaranteed 
>to be
> > there.
> >
> > I am using the API's but isn't moving the data and clearing the space taking
> > longer than passing the pointer?
> >
> > Harry
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Please excuse me if I'm completely wrong...  I'm completely new to MI, but
> I'm an experienced RPG programmer.  :)  I just hope that what I'm about to
> say makes sense from the MI side of things.
>
> When you call the RPG program, just pass everything as a parm.  Parms are
> passed by reference from your MI program, so RPG doesn't attempt to
> initalize them.   You don't need to set a max length for the data returned
> (in the RPG program) because the IFS read() API returns a pointer, not a
> character variable.
>
> Perhaps it'd be clearer if I showed a (perhaps oversimplified) example of
> the RPG side of things:
>
>      D read            PR                  ExtProc('read')
>      D                               10I 0 value
>      D                                 *   value
>      D                               10I 0 value
>
>      D desc            S             10I 0
>      D dtaptr          S               *
>      D length          S             10I 0
>      D retval          S             10I 0
>
>      c     *entry        plist
>      c                   parm                    desc
>      c                   parm                    dtaptr
>      c                   parm                    length
>      c                   parm                    retval
>
>      c                   eval      retval = read(desc: dtaptr: length)
>
> If I'm completely off-base, please let me know gently :)
>
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