Re: Building a CL command in a RPG Program (Help!)

I think your problem is in your statement

My program gets a data decimal error because on some of the
parameters, it picks up the double quotes as part of the parameter

If you are sending a numeric parameter (that is, the CL is expecting it to be
numeric), you don't need the " characters around the variable.

So, if (for example) your third parameter is numeric, you should build your
string as

EVAL      CMD = 'SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(PGMNAME) ' +
          'PARM("' + Parm1 + '" ' +
          '"' + Parm2 + '" ' +
              + Parm3 + ' ' +
          '"' + Parm4 + '"))' +
          ' JOB(JOBNAME)'

Alternately, you can send all your parameters as characters, then changethose in
the CL that need to be numeric.




"Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com> on 08/05/2001 05:17:15

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Subject:  Building a CL command in a RPG Program (Help!)




I am trying to build a CL call command within a RPG program with four
parameters. I cannot get the command to work. I am modifying a program and
for some reason unable to debug it to verify the command is right. What is
the proper syntax for putting quotes around parameters?

This is the command I want to call:
SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(PGMNAME) PARM('PARM1' 'PARM2' 'PARM3' 'PARM4'))
JOB(JOBNAME)

This is the code I have to build it:
EVAL      CMD = 'SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(PGMNAME) ' +
          'PARM("' + Parm1 + '" ' +
          '"' + Parm2 + '" ' +
          '"' + Parm3 + '" ' +
          '"' + Parm4 + '"))' +
          ' JOB(JOBNAME)'

The command is being passed to a CL where is then uses QCMDEXC to execute
the command. My program gets a data decimal error because on some of the
parameters, it picks up the double quotes as part of the parameter (ex. A
date field would look like "0501200).

Thanks for any help!

Mike
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