Re: ILE and CL, need be pointed to the right directions

M
Hello Ramanujam,

You wrote:
>Assuming that I understand your statement correctly, 
>I think CL can handle return values. 
>CALLPRC Prc(Procedure_name) Parm(&parm1 &parm2....) RTNVAL(&rtnvalue)

CL can receive return values but it cannot itself return them.  Therefore an 
RPG 
IV program (indeed any calling program) cannot use a CL procedure in an 
expression i.e., the following:

        C               EVAL      data = CLproc( var1: var2 )

cannot be done, but it can do:

        C               CALLP     CLproc( var1: var2: data )

>don't know if this was available prior to V4R5. 

IIRC, RTNVAL has been on the CL CALLPRC command since the inception of ILE way 
back in V2R3.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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