Re: Entry Parameters

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Bruce,

It didn't occur to me that braces would be variant.  It does make sense but I 
assumed '}' would 
be invariant because of its position.

So, while doing this would be OK if the character value were being passed from 
a HLL program 
compiled under code page 37, it would not work from CL which will interpret the 
code points at 
runtime. Correct?

And, of course, it would work from the command line provided the programmer 
knew what character 
was represented by X'D0'.

And it would change depending on installed national language and device 
description keyboard 
type.  Correct?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 00 12:02:26 -0600
> From: bvining@vnet.ibm.com
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Reply-To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Entry Parameters

> 
> >
> >Negative values aren't a problem either.
> >
> >   CALL PGM(JIMCONEX/CHGAPOPEN) PARM('5J' '99011}' '5J' '00012}')
> >
> >will pass all the values as negative numbers.
> >
> 
> Actually negative values can be a problem.  The '}', which I assume is
> intended to represent a negative value of 0, is variant and can,
> depending upon your current keyboard, come into the system as X'DC'
> (German 273), x'47' (Danish 277), x'54' (Italian 280), etc.  For these
> code pages the user would need to enter Latin small letter u with
> diaeresis, latin small letter a with ring above, and latin small letter
> e with grave respectively.
> 
> Bruce Vining
> 
> 
> 
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