RE: Passing Numeric Parms in SBMJOB. How ?

I'm an even bigger chicken.  I pass parms as character and convert them in
the receiving program.  If you make sure the string is numeric characters,
it works ok.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boothm@ibm.net [mailto:boothm@ibm.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 3:30 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Passing Numeric Parms in SBMJOB. How ?
> 
> 
> Numeric parms work but always seem to be a point of failure 
> and booby trap for unwary programmers.  The 15/5 thing is 
> never quite clear.  
> 
> Being the chicken that I am, I solve the problem you mention 
> by stuffing the information into the *LDA while in 
> interactive mode, and then read the *LDA in the RPG program 
> during the batch mode.
> 
> In <01BE7170.7456E440@aveiro>, on 03/18/99 
>    at 06:52 PM, Silvio Santos <Silvio.Santos@brainag.com> said:
> 
> >Hello!
> 
> >I have a RPG program that has to call another program in 
> BATCH. So I have
> >to execute the command SBMJOB in there. But one of the 
> parameters is a
> >numeric variable of the program (with no decimals 
> positions), and I don't
> >know how to put (and use) it in the command.
> 
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