RE: Passing Parms to an RPG Program

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guess I work in an uncivilized environment.  <g>

I find myself calling production programs (mostly reports) from the command
line to recover from various things that I find it _very_ worthwhile in some
cases to pass numeric parameters as character values and convert them in the
called program.

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> From: bmorris@ca.ibm.com [mailto:bmorris@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 11:44 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Passing Parms to an RPG Program
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> Does anyone actually have production programs that are
> called with CALL from the command line?  Aren't programs
> called from the command line only for testing?  And for
> testing, it's surely easier to temporarily change parameters
> to packed(15,5) and copy the values to the "real" parameters,
> or possibly write another program to receive the packed(15,5)
> and pass them on to the tested program.
> 
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