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RE: Passing binary data to a CL?

  • Subject: RE: Passing binary data to a CL?
  • From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:53:24 -0400
 
David Gibbs wrote:
>I'm looking for opinions... what's the best way to pass binary data to a
CL?
>I've got a CL wrapper around an IBM API that requires binary parameters.
>I've tried passing standard numeric parms, but I'm looking for
alternatives.

Write a command and use *INT4 on the command def.  Use *CHAR 4 in the CL
program and you're good to go.

CMD 'TEST'                
PARM KWD(BIN1) TYPE(*INT4)

PGM (&parmbin)  
DCL &parmbin *CHAR 4  

Buck 
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