RE: RPG/400 pgm strange behaviour

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good point.  The default length to pass for a character parameter from a CL
program is 32 bytes.

Sometimes, if a field is from a list, the parm will be preceeded with a
2-byte length.  That would put the offset at 34 bytes.

If the RPG program is a CPP ...

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Alan Addison
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:34 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: RPG/400 pgm strange behaviour


Also if being called via a CL program...  if an alpha parm is a long field
it is
important that the last character not be blank.  I have found that this
skews the
parameters on subsequent calls.


Silvio Santos wrote:

> I have a program (RPG/400) that checks if some record exists and return.
>
> These two filds are *ENTRY parms of the PGM:
> MSDT$E - length 256
> $RTC$E (*FOUND or *ERROR) - length 8A
>
> The condition used is like this:
>
> *IN,96    IFEQ '0'
>           MOVEL'*FOUND'  $RTC$E
>           MOVELMSDTOH  MSDT$E
>           ELSE
>           MOVEL'*ERROR'  $RTC$E
>           ENDIF
>
> It works fine, excepts for one thing: if the condition is true, when it
moves
> the MSDTOH content to MSDT$E, it erases the $RTC$E field. For the other
hand,
> when the first move is done, the '*Found' is placed in the 34th position
of the
> field MSDT$E.
>
> Is there any restriction about entry parms lenght ?
> How can I resolve this?
>
> Thanks
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