RE: Passing Parms to an RPG Program

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to clarify - The only time I'd call a program with numeric parameters
being passed as hexadecimal from the command line would be in testing mode.
If this is a program that is used often from the command line, it should be
called from a command, especially if there are any parameters to be passed
to it.

My .02

- Dan Bale

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Tufankjian [mailto:Tom_Tufankjian@hbltd.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 9:56 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Passing Parms to an RPG Program


You'd have to pass the value from the command line in hexadecimal format.
I wouldn't go there.

However there are easier ways.

1.  Create a command with the numeric parm and with  your RPG program as
the command processing program .

2.  If you're just testing, create a cl program with the numeric variable
declared with an initial value, then call your program using that declared
value:
 DCL        VAR(&NUMBER) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(5 0) VALUE(1234)
call pgma parm(&number)

3.  Whenever possible always use character parms to hold your numeric
value.  MUCH EASIER. This works well with dates, option numbers, etc.  You
can always move them to numeric in your rpg program.  You must enclose the
number in single quotes though:

call pgma parm('000323' )

If not possible to use a character parm, follow example 1 or 2.

Hope this helps,
Tom T.

Hope this helps.
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