RE: Passing numeric parms between CL and RPG IV

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc Zylka wrote:

>What was the problem with passing 
>numeric parms between CL and RPG IV?  

The machine has no problem at all - it is we programmers who have the
problem :-)

>It looks like it works but I seem to remember 
>a discussion about setting up the parm to be 
>defined as 15 5.  What situation requires this?

Any time you call *any* program from a command line (QCL, QCMD, QCMDEXEC,
system(), SBMJOB etc.) the "command line" formats numeric parameters as
packed 15,5.  This is because the command line has no way to explicitly
declare the size of what is essentially a literal.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
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 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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