Re: Call Query

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ignore this message.  It has absolutely nothing to do with your question,
other than the fact I'm talking about passing parameters too.

Friday Morning huh?s I guess.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Jim Langston wrote:
> 
> I wrote the same kind of program myself recently, with a lot of parameters
> being passed (18 parameters).  There are 4 files I wound up having to 
>maintain.
> AgingFM - The Display file
> AgingCL - The initial CL that calls the display file and then submits the job
> AgingJQ - The CL that is submitted and that calls the RPG program
> Aging - The RPG program itself.
> 
> It is a pain to have to maintain 4 files.  I added 2 parameters the other day
> and had to modify all 4 programs, then run to see if I missed anything, which
> I did, so had to fix it and re run it.  I don't remember why I wound up with
> 2 CLs instead of 1, however, but it probably has something to do with not 
>being
> able to pass numerics other than 15,5 to RPG programs and I wanted to pass 
>them
> at their real lengths and not have to kludge my program.  By creative 
>parameter
> passing I wound up with my RPG receiving them as numeric but passing them as
> strings in the CL.  I could probably get rid of the second CL if I wished.
> 
> The selection criteria is processed in the RPG program itself, not the CL.  
>The
> CL just passes on the information.
> 
> I could think of other ways I could do this, but wouldn't want to, such as
> a data queue, a file with the parameters written and then read, etc...
> 
> They are parameters, pass them as such is my opinion.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> The second thing that goes is your memory.  I don't remember what the first 
>this is.
> 
> Jose Vega wrote:
> >
> > Newbie question here,
> >
> > I want to call a query from either an RPG or CL program, with parms passed
> > in from a screen. Passing the parms might be tricky. I think this would be
> > easier than writing the rpg program that generates the report but could be
> > wrong. I am using DBU and we are an rpg400 shop.  Any comments or
> > suggestions would be appreciated.
> > Thanks.
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