Re: Passing variables from program to program.

>i have about 10 variables that are being used in about 3 CL and 1 RPG
program.   what is the best way or the "standard >method"  by parming them
or using a data area?

Not much in it for me. The advantage of using parameters is that it is more
obvious what is going on. The  CL programs would be (marginally) less
complicated as you would not need to map the data area to the 10 variables
with chgvar. The only disadvantage I can see is a longer parameter list for
the pgms, which may also have a slight performance overhead on the calls,
(I imagine it wouldnt be noticeable.) (but then you wouldnt be doing 10
chgvars either).

If they were all rpg pgms, then I would consider using an externally
defined data structure and passing the data structure as one parm block.

I would go for the parm list option myself.

Nigel.


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