Re: [RPG parameters]

[Frank Kolmann <fkolmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Carl Pitcher" <cpitcher@roadrunner.nf.net> wrote:
> I am developing a program (V4R2) which needs to pass a fiscal year to
> another program and return the 12 fiscal period ends which I would like to
> define as an array.  Since *ENTRY  PLIST doesn't allow passing of array
> elements or data structures, are there any suggestions as to how I can
> implement this without passing 12 PARM fields for the dates and then moving
> them to array elements on the return? 

I pass data structures in PLISTS. Example below picks up a whole record
from a file with same layoout as OB data structure and it works OK.
This is the old RPG III code (pre ILE).

0054.00      I*                               
0055.00      IOB        E DS                  
0056.00      I*  ORDER  OPTIONS        
0153.00      C           *ENTRY    PLIST                                  
0154.00      C                     PARM           @CMPNO 155              
0157.00      C           OB        PARM           @OB                        

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