Re: RPG Display program and processing

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Just as a side note, you can handle this is a single CL.

Use RTVJOBA to determine if a job is interactive (type=1) do the prompting then
do a SBMJOB and return, if batch (type=0) GOTO the actual process, skipping the
prompting.

In the SBMJOB submit a command instead of a CALL to the CL, IMHO it makes the
parameter passing a whole lot easier.

Jim Langston wrote:

> Hmm... Okay, very good point.  This is the method I will use in the future,
> then, and in fact have used on this one.
>
> The final application has 2 CLs, 1 Display file and one RPG.  The initial
> CL calls the display file and checks for F3 or F12.  If not F3 or F12 it
> SBMJOB's the second CL.  The Second CL does an OVRPRTF and
> calls the RPG program (which is why I needed 2 CLs and not just one).
>
> The one pain is the first CL converts the two numeric fields to alpha and
> then passes them to the second CL.  The second CL passes the numbers
> as characters, as there's the imfamous 15,2 problem with passing numbers
> between CL and RPG.  All in all, though, I like the solution and is one I
> have done in the past.  If we later decide on a different interface (HTTP,
> Client/Server, whatever) all we need to do is change the first CL which is
> a very small program.
>

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