Re: Procedure Problem

["Scott Klement" <infosys@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

Was there something about the options that I pointed out that you
didn't agree with?

I guess what I'm wondering why you're addressing this message
to me, rather than posting it saying "in addition to scott's options
you can do it with varying fields like this..."


"David Morris" <dmorris@plumcreek.com> wrote:
> Mark & Scott,
>
> On V3R2 you do not have very many options. On V4R2+ I would opt to
> pass my input string as a varying length CONST field.  I do not have
>  the
> source handy for a center string I have been using, but the prototyp
>  is
> something like:
>
> DCntStr           PR    32765A    VARYING
> D InpStr                     32765A    VARYING CONST
> D OptOutStrL                    5U 0 OPTIONS(*NOPASS) CONST
>
> Using varying strings you can make your procedure work a lot more
> like IBM's built-in functions. They also get around the parameter ty
> limitations imposed by OPDESC.

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