Re: Can't pass numerics to RPG unless they're 15,5

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck Calabro wrote:

>> The only problem is passing numeric 
>> parameters between the command line
>> and a program.  

Rolf Mittag wrote:

>really it is not the command line . . .
>
>passing parameters as constants is 
>the problem, as the command line 
>passes constants :

You are completely correct, but I use the "command line" as a practical
example of where this problem of passing constants arises.  

It is quite rare for a program to call another program and pass a literal.
It is much more common for a program to create a SBMJOB or QCMDEXEC and
create a constant to be passed.  Or to try to test the called program by
calling it from the command line.  That's why I (wrongly) use the command
line as the place numeric parameters fall over.

Thanks for pointing that out - I'll try to be less hysterical in the future!

tschuss!
Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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