RE: imbedded CL in RPG

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In many applications, already overloaded with programs, adding extra
programs just to run a simple CL command, adds to the object management 
workload.

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
>>> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 8:44 PM
>>> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>>> Subject: RE: imbedded CL in RPG
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Rob wrote:
>>> >No, you have to roll your own.
>>> >
>>> >And they never did get back to me as to whether or not the 
>>> following will
>>> >be supported, or is doable:
>>> >
>>> >C    Eval   JobUser = *blanks
>>> >C    CALLP  Runcmd(RTVJOBA USER(&JobUser) )
>>> >C    DSPLY  JobUser
>>> 
>>> Doable?  Don't know.  Will it ever be supported?  As long
>>> as you can call a CL program from RPG, probably not.
>>> 
>>> (Actually, "RTVJOBA USER()" is probably a bad example since
>>> you can get that information from pos 254-263 of the
>>> program status data structure.)
>>> 
>>> Cheers!  Hans
>>> 
>>> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
>>> 
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