Re: passing data from CL to RPG

["Denis Robitaille" <DRobitaille@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ther are some issues depending on data type.

- if the parameter is alpha (in both the CL and RPG): no problem
- if the parameter is packed numeric (in both the CL and RPG): no problem
- if the parameter is zoned (in the RPG): problem because you can not have a 
zoned variable in CL
Solution: 
   - In the CL, define a variable of type *CHAR of the same length as the 
numeric variable. 
   - Then do a chgvar to tranfer the value from the numeric variable to the 
character variable
   - Use the caracter variable as the parameter in the call to the RPG 
   - this work because the caracter representation of a number is the same as 
the zoned representation

Denis Robitaille
Directeur service technique
Cascades Inc
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fax 819 363 5177


>>> "Chris Beck" <CBeck@good-sam.com> 11/24 2:36 PM >>>
Can someone help me with what is the easiest way to pass some variables from a 
cl program to a RPG program? 

thanks in advance.

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