Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms

John,

Just a thought: can you not pass the parameters in one string (a data 
structure) and have the receiving and the calling programming split the 
subfields in usefull work fields. The programme name can be passed as 
another parameter and used on  the CALL-statement: CALL &SOMETHING (in CLP).

Like:          Call Socketprogramme
                  Parm                            ProgrammetoCall 
     10
                  Parm                            DataInRequest 
      256

Socket       Parm            ProgrammeToCall                  10
                  Parm             DataToProces                     256

                 Call               ProgrammeToCall
                 Parm 
DataToProces

This may have been mentioned earlier.

Regards,

Carel Teijgeler

At 10:52 3-7-01 -0500, you wrote:

>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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