Re: How to call a remote program and getting a return value intoa passed parameter?

Sorry to hear that.  Does your manager not allow you to use your keyboard 
either?

There's an old beer soaked memory that's coming back to me from my S/36 
days.  "Back in the day" the S/36 did not have a CALL option in RPGII 
until the last release.  Someone figured out a technique that was quickly 
adopted by vendors peddling precompilers that would give you call 
capability.  And it did this by using remote APPC calls or some such 
animal.
Maybe if you searched the ILE RPG Programmers Guide and the ILE RPG 
Reference for ICF programming you may find it.

Or perhaps your boss would be more interested in learning how to code 
API's and socket programming?
http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/socktut/
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzab6/rzab6soxoverview.htm

Another option may be using remote data queues.  Perhaps the remote system 
could monitor one for entries with the "in" parameters.  Then could write 
to the local system with the "out" parameters.

Rob Berendt