Re: Passing Parms to an RPG Program

Hi,

I've seen a lot of replies to this, all with solutions that will work. My
question is, who's going to be using this program? Will the users be
comfortable with entering a number as the hexadecimal representation of a
packed decimal number? Why not provide a command or a display file to prompt
for the parameter? If it has to be called from a command line, then the
simplest way from the user's point of view is to go with the defaults, i.e.
the 15.5 size for numeric fields, as described by Lewis Miller and Buck
Calabro.

On the other hand, if you're just testing a program that will normally only
be called by another program, then passing it in hex makes sense.

HTH
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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909 425-0196 fax


----- Original Message -----
From: a b <eagle_291@yahoo.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 5:15 AM
Subject: Passing Parms to an RPG Program


> Beginners question:
>
> I'm attempting to call an RPG application from the
> command line with a parm, but I continue to get an
> error indicating that I have a data decimal error.
> I'm not quite sure if I'm doing this right or not but
> essentially I'm doing the following:
>
>  CALL PGM(ALIBARY/PROGRAMX) PARM(9)
>
> I need to pass a numeric variable to my RPG program
> that looks like this:
>
>
> *******************************************************fafile
>   UF A E K DISK
> fbfile   UF A E K DISK
> *******************************************************dcustid
>     s      10 0
>
> *********************************************************
> Mainline
>
> c     *entry       plist
> c                  parm        custid
>
> C     custid       chain       afile
> c                  if          not %found
> c          ***************************
> c           ************************
> c                  else                   c
>       return
> c                  endif
>
>
> Is this right... or am I missing something that I
> should have?
>
>
> Any help would greatly be apprecaited.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
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