Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

We do this via an external mechanism and not directly through parms.  The 
parms are passed in a user space/index.  It is very flexible to do it this way, 
but you have to do a lot of work up front. In October 1999, Midrange Computing 
published an article called Put It In Storage that describes how you can do 
this.  
The code for that article is available here:

http://www.midrangecomputing.com/ftp/prog/99/991004.zip 

I have used this technique in quite a few programs and it works pretty well. 
Our 
programs do have a description of parameters that is stored in a database 
file although that could be passed in a known value like parm_count, parm1, etc.

David Morris

>>> jross-ml@netshare400.com 07/03/01 09:52AM >>>
Is there any way I can call a program from a program without knowing what 
the second (called) programs name or parameters are at the time I write the 
first (calling) program. I need to get any parameters back from the second 
program into the first program.

What I am trying to do is write one sockets program that will run on the 
AS/400 and run a program that was passed to it from a PC and then pass the 
results to the PC. The pc will format the call and strip out the returned 
parameters.

It is my understanding the QCMDEXEC and Run remote command (ftp) will not 
return parameters.

I have not used ILE very much so it maybe easier then I think. I can write 
the sockets program it is just the part of calling the second program that 
I need to know how to handle.

Thanks
John Ross


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