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Here is the problem: We have a cobol OPM program that needs more than 30 parameters, since cobol can't handle that we've compressed the parms into a couple of data structures. We now want to call this program as a SQL stored procedure. Since the "real" parameters to the program are a could of big data structures with a mix of packed numeric and char fields we'd like to have a wrapper program that accepts the parms as individual fields packs them into the DS and calls the cobol program. RPGLE goes up to 255 parms so that seems like a great idea. Ideally, I'd like to do the following (the real code has >40 parms): DP1PARM ds D P1BCST 1 D p1bbnb 5p 0 D p1bdst 1 C *entry plist C parm p1bcst C parm p1bbnb C parm p1bdst C call 'cblpgm' C parm p1parm But I don't seem to be able to pass subfields as parms. So: 1) Is there a way I can pass subfields? -or- 2) If I define a series of standalone fields like: D W1BCST s 1 D W1bbnb s 5p 0 D W1bdst s 1 Are they GUARANTEED to be contiguous in memory? If so I could pass these parms into the RPGLE program and then do a memcpy of the first parm for the total number of bytes in all parms into the datastructure to move all the parms in one shot. Now, I know all I really need to do is an "eval p1bcst = w1bcst" for each parm before the call and a "eval w1bcst = p1bcst" for each parm after the call, but when you have >40 parms and numerous programs with this problem you look for shortcuts. -Walden ------------ Walden H Leverich III President Tech Software (516)627-3800 x11 WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com http://www.TechSoftInc.com
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