RE: Batch Vs Interactive -- MIDRANGE-L

Sorry so late here.  Have you tried calling wiht character parms and
moving them to numeric flds in the pgm?

Joe Giusto II
Patuxent Publishing Company
mailto:jgiusto@patuxent.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: VENU YAMAJALA [SMTP:venu_yamajala@goodyear.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 4:08 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Batch Vs Interactive
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>  I am facing a peculiar problem. I have a CL pgm that submits another
> CL
> in batch. The CL2 then calls an RPGLE program. In my CL1 pgm, I am
> calling CL2
> in batch by sending some parameters as
> 
> SBMJOB    CMD(Call CL2  Parm(&App  &Day   &Log))
> 
> &App is a character 5 field
> &Day is 5, 0 packed whose value is 0
> &Log is 9,0 packed whose value should be 1.
> 
>  The SBMJOB is calling the CL2 pgm with proper values to all the
> parameters. The CL2 then is simply calling RPGLE. In RPGLE, I have
> *INZSR. I
> defined the fields as exactly same as CL attrbutes. DayFld as 5,0
> packed and
> LogFld as 9,0 packed. But I am getting a Decimal Data Error in *INZSR.
> When I
> did a DUMP of the values, I got
> 
>   @@$App             CHAR(5)                  'VG   '
> 'E5C7404040'X
>   @@$LOG             PACKED(9,0)          000000000.
> '0000000001'X
>   @@$DaY               PACKED(5,0)         00000.
> '000000'X
> 
>  I can clearly see that the value of @@$LOG is coming to this RPGLE as
> 0. But I am passing a value of 1. I checked the
> joblog for the command it logged. It is sending 1 as the value. But
> when I
> receive in RPGLE, I am getting it as 0.
> 
>  The problem is not over. The same process, if I am runnig
> interactively
> is working perfectly. I am not getting any DDE.
> Infact in interactive mode, I got the DUMP of values as
> 
>  @@$APP                  CHAR(5)              'VG   '
> 'E5C7404040'X
>  @@$LOG             PACKED(9,0)       000000001.       '000000001F'X
>  @@$DaY                PACKED(5,0)            00000.
> '00000F'X
> 
>  I can clearly see that @@$App is getting correct value as 1. The big
> difference I found is that in batch call, I am not able
> to get the sign nibble 'Fx where as in interative mode, I am getting.
> The same
> is true for the field @@$Day also. In batch mode
> the sign bit is wrong for both the numeric values.
> 
>  Due to this I am gettting DDE error that says "
> 
> 0    08/04/98   15:12:47   QWTCCCNJ       QSYS        042B     *N
> *N
>  Message . . . . :   Decimal data error.
>  Cause . . . . . :   The sign or the digit codes of the packed or the
> zoned
>    decimal operand is in error.  Valid signs are hex A-F, valid digit
> range is
>    hex 0-9.
> 
>  What is going on here? Can any one explain me this?
> Any suggestions/help is greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance for the
> help/suggestions.
> 
> Rgds
> Venu
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