RE: Recursive CL - Data decimal error

Made an attempt at going the data area route but it failed, also. So, I
ended up changing the RPGLE / CL to pass/receive  a character field
instead. But, still wanted to know why this happened.
Thanks
At 12:11 PM 10/23/2001 -0400, you wrote:
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>Fran, I don't know the answer for the truncation, but I think you might be
>able to push the value to a dataarea if that is the the only issue?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fran Denoncourt [mailto:BobNFran@escapees.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:40 AM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Recursive CL - Data decimal error
>
>
>Is there a known bug with calling a CL recursively passing decimal data as
>a parameter to the CL?
>I don't seem to have any problems with a character field. But if I pass
>numeric and logical, part of the data seems to get truncated when the
>second pass is run.
>The first pass checks to see if it is an interactive job. If so, it submits
>itself passing the two input parameters from an RPGLE program: numeric
>(*DEC 9/0) and and indicator (*LGL). The error occurs when I use a CHGVAR
>command with the numeric field.
>If I remove the SBMJOB code and let the execution drop through to the
>CHGVAR, no problem.
>Thanks,
>Fran Denoncourt
>
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