RE: Batch Submissions from RPGIV

["McCallion, Martin" <MccalliM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Finney said:

> I have a procedure which needs to submit another procedure to 
> batch. Now I
> have done simple compile-time tables in
>  conjunction with calling QCMDEXC but this has been without 
> passing parms.
> Now I need to pass +-35 of them and I'm, well,
> stumped on this one. I really don't want to have to create a 
> CL proc just
> to perform this action ( seems a waste. Call a pgm to call
>  a pgm to batch). Is there any API which I could use to do this ?

John,

You can build up a string containing the call and any parameters you
need using the string operations.  Alternatively you can define your
command using a data structure, where the parameters could be various
subfields.  Either method can get very messy, but will work.

Cheers,

Martin.

.:. 
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