Re: Passing Parms to an RPG Program

["Tom Tufankjian" <Tom_Tufankjian@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> If it works to your satisfaction it is correct.

>>Sorry to be pedantic but the question concerned passing numeric parms
from the
>>command line.  Not matter what the shop standard, the AS/400 standard is
that
>>_all_ command line numeric parms are 15,5 no ifs ands or buts.  All other
>>techniques (including hex) result in the passing of a character string
which the
>>program then _interprets_ as if it were numeric.  In a pinch that's OK -
but
>>surely one should understand what you're doing and why?


Well spoken!

So if I have a value of 123, would the call be:      CALL PGMA
PARM(000000012300000)   ?





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