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Hey, John.

No Varchars and no prototypes. It's a straight call. But I'm thinking of
making an ILE interface for the program so that it would be available from
any ILE language.

I'll dig into it. Shouldn't be terrible. I had one person suggest
creating a PF and using that as an external DS. But there are arrays in
the data structure/parameter list so that may not work either. But I'm
sure there are "tricks" lol.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 2:28 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No docs that I know of Brad but I have done it for a few people in the
past.

A bigger issue is often that with RPG we can rely on the prototypes to
help and also have support for varchar - neither of which exist in COBOL.

If you want to send me a couple of samples (including the protos so I know
how the calls should be) I would be more than happy to convert them for you
to give you an idea.



On Aug 9, 2020, at 2:05 PM, Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This may seem like an odd question, but are there any materials that show
how you can convert a data structure and field definitions from RPG to
COBOL for the IBM i?

I only ask because I have someone who wants to call one of my programs
but
the /copy book for the parameters and fields is RPG and they are COBOL
only
shop. I would think once that is converted that calling an RPG program
from COBOL (not a subprocedure, just a straight CALL) should be simple.

I haven't touched COBOL since the 90s. :)

Thanks!


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