Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms

I am willing to have the PC format the call however it has to. If that means
program name char 5 value char 30 value packed 5.0 value packed 5.0 value
getting the number of parms and the size of the parms can be setup on the 
PC because it knows the program it is calling and the parms and size of 
them the program needs.  I am just not that good at ILE to know how I would 
define the parms on the AS/400 side on the fly.

And I can not be sure that pgmB will initialize the out parms before they 
are used.

Thanks
John Ross

At 01:08 PM 7/3/01 -0700, you wrote:
>[snip]
>
>If John's situation is that all pgmB's have parameters within a certain
>range (e.g. no more than 20 parameters, each parameter no larger than say
>256a) and the PC program can figure out the data, he might be able to do it.
>If not, I don't know any api that will tell you the size and type of a given
>program's parameters.
>
>Regards,
>Peter Dow
>Dow Software Services, Inc.
>909 425-0194 voice
>909 425-0196 fax
[snip]

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