Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms

[John Ross <jross-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For anyone still following this and interested in helping. Here are the two 
programs I have now. I was think of making this all open source anyway.
http://www.netshare400.com/cgi-bin/DSPSAMP?file=QRPGLESRC&mbr=MAIN1
and
http://www.netshare400.com/cgi-bin/DSPSAMP?file=QRPGLESRC&mbr=SPAWN1

Now I can keep going this route and make a SPAWN2, etc for the next 
programs I need. Which for reading a file is probably the best. But say I 
have a program that gets the serial number of the AS/400 and I have a 
program that gets all objects in a library using an API. I just want to 
call the program to get the serial number and have it passed back to the PC 
program. Then in another PC program I want to call a program to create a 
user space, then a program to populate the user space with objects in a 
library, then read the user space, then delete the user space.

I know I could setup one or two spawn programs to deal with this passing 
known parameters. But this is just one example. I want to tell a PC 
programmer to call this program on the AS/400 and format the parameters 
this way and here is what you will get back. And not have to then tell an 
AS/400 programmer to setup a SPAWN program to call an already written 
AS/400 program the and send the parameter values you get back to the PC 
program. And I do not want to use ODBC or anything from client access.

I am sorry if I keep repeating the same things over and over it is just I 
do not know what question(s) to ask and hope something will trigger someone 
to say yes use the pointers or no you need to (or can) do it this way.

Thanks
John Ross

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