Re: Using plink to call system commands via SSH mangling parms

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

When you call CL from a command line with numeric parameters aren't they
all considered 15.5?

Art

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 3:17 PM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well for posterity sake here's what you can do if you can't write a CL
> command wrapper and want to use plink.exe to run IBMi programs or commands:
>
> Original
> plink -ssh "user@1.1.1.1<mailto:user@1.1.1.1>" -pw pass1 /bin/system
> 'CALL PGM(LIB/PGM) PARM("A99   " "B22   ")'
>
> Fixed with special characters (,), / and ' escaped with a backslash \ and
> with double quotes around the entire command.
> plink -ssh "user@1.1.1.1<mailto:user@1.1.1.1>" -pw pass1 /bin/system
> "CALL PGM\(LIB\/PGM\) PARM\(\'A99\'  \'B22\'\)"
>
> I favor the CL command wrapper though.
>
> Almost as ugly as *TCAT and *BCAT in CL.
>
> FYI: You can feedback CL commands via SNDPGMMSG if you plan to send back
> any CL responses from plink.exe
>
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> From: Richard Schoen
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 11:53 AM
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> Subject: Using plink to call system commands via SSH mangling parms
>
> Hey All,
>
> Interesting issue. Trying to use plink.exe to call CL commands from an SSH
> session in Windows.
>
> Call works, but parm data mangled.
>
> Example that does NOT convert char parms correctly: REM plink -ssh "
> user@1.1.1.1<mailto:user@1.1.1.1>" -pw pass1 /bin/system 'CALL
> PGM(LIB/PGM) PARM("999   " "222   ")'
>
> Example that does convert char parms correctly with character prefix in
> each parm: REM plink -ssh "user@1.1.1.1<mailto:user@1.1.1.1>" -pw pass1
> /bin/system 'CALL PGM(LIB/PGM) PARM("A99   " "B22   ")'
>
> Apparently prefixing the character fields will cause the parm to convert
> to character. But if parm is numbers the parm gets turned numeric and thus
> the CL program interprets the parms as garbage.
>
> I resolved the issue as usual by creating a CL command to front end the
> call to the CL program.
>
> However is there a way to force the correct parm conversion using
> CALL/PARM instead ?
>
> Thoughts appreciated.
>
> PS: This is more for posterity as I'm sure others may run into this.
>
> Regards,
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