RE: Calling a program without knowing the parms

>No lark and not just one PC program. One time it 
>will be a program to show items and quantity 
>another program to show open orders.

I missed the concept that there would be multiple PC programs.  Completely
my fault!

>Not sure why client server applications sounds like a lark. 

Again, my fault.  From the original post, I thought you were tinkering with
the idea instead of working a specific problem.

>I also know there are packages out there that can do this. 
>But I am a cheap programmer and I figure 
>I/we should be able to figure this out.

My meagre contribution is only to suggest that the "middleware" store the
list of parameter type/lengths by system name/library name/program name.
That way your cross reference will run on a network of 400's without
changes.

I will poke around my equally meagre MI code collection and see if I have a
map to the ODT.  There may be a way to materialise the program template and
re-construct the definitions of the PEP parameters.

Buck 
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