Re: Entry Parameters

If you're going to call it from the command line, and pass the parms,
the parms either have to be 15P 5, or they have to be character
variables.   This has nothing to do with RPG IV (or "RPGLE") but
rather is just the way that the command interpreter deals with
numbers.  (In other words, you'd have the same problem in CL or
RPG III, as well)

IMHO, if you want to pass things from the command line, the best
solution is to create a command.

If you're just doing this for testing purposes, you might consider
passing them as hex values... i.e. instead of:
PARM(51)   you'd do    PARM(x'F5F1')

Another thing you might want to reconsider is whether you truly
need to pass "Zoned Decimal" parms instead of packed.   CL can't
do zoned...  I may be wrong, but I also don't think that commands
are capable of passing zoned...   You can do it in RPG III, but its
slightly more difficult than packed.   So, in my opinion, passing
parms as zoned isnt usually a good policy...

Have fun...



Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com> wrote:
> V3R7M0  RPGLE
>
> I wrote an RPGLE program that is supposed to accept four
> numeric values as parameters.
>
> D FromCompNum     S         2S 0
> D FromBatch       S         6S 0
> D ToCompNum       S         2S 0
> D ToBatch         S         6S 0
>
> C    *Entry    PList
> C              Parm       FromCompNum
> C              Parm       FromBatch
> C              Parm       ToCompNum
> C              Parm       ToBatch
>
> C              If         APComp = FromCompNum And
> C                         APBatc = FromBatch
> <SNIP>
>
> I call it thustly:
>
> CALL PGM(JIMCONEX/CHGAPOPEN) PARM(51 990110 51 000120)
>
> The If statement bombs with a Decimal Data Error.  Putting it in Deb
> Mode, I see that my four parameters contain garbage.  How am I
>  supposed
> to call this thing?  Do I have to pass them as character strings?  I
> so, I would
> create a Data Structure Like:
>
> D                     DS
> D                                  FromCompNum    1    2S 0
> D                                  FromCompAsStr   1    2
>
> Then put FromCompAsStr in my Parm statement.  Is this what I have to
>  do?
>
> I know this will work, I have done it in the past, and will do it no
> while
> waiting for a response, but isn't there another way?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
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