Re: Numeric parameters between RPG programs

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:06 PM 5/27/98 -0400, Elena Vázquez wrote:
>Good morning,
>I have a problem in an RPG program, and I would like to know whether
>exists a PTF to solve it or it is the correct behaviour.
>
>In program 1 I have defined  a list of parameters to call to program 2,
>one of these parameters in program 1 corresponds to a field from a
>external described file, and its type is zoned (5S 0).
>When I call the second program, it receives this parameter into a
>program variable defined in D specs with the same type (5S 0), but the
>contents of this variable is always garbage, and I receive a run-time
>error in the first line that uses the variable.

I fought this on V3R1, but I thought this behavior had been changed. When you 
defined a numeric variable with Like(), it was always assigned the default 
(packed) storage type. You can confirm this in your program by searching the 
field definitions at the end of the compiler listing for the variable name. At 
least at V3R1, you couldn't specify the storage type on a D spec that used 
Like(). It was a little maddening. I was forced to hard code some field lengths 
so that I could specify the storage type <grrrr>. So much for data 
independence. This was not considered a bug. I guess that makes it a feature. I 
haven't tried it lately. Don't write much RPG any more.



Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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