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  • Subject: Re: Operational descriptors
  • From: "Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jul 01 14:50:08 +1000


Hello Peter,

You wrote:
>I've been trying to get the bindable API CEESECS to work but it keeps
>crashing with missing operational descriptors despite using either OPDESC
>when prototyped or (D) when not. The 3rd parameter is a floating point value
>and OS/400 only support descriptors on character fields but it's only the
>first 2 parameters that are variable strings so I figured it would be
>expecting operational descriptors only on these.

The following example code works happily on VRM440.  The strange definitions 
at the top are from my RPG IV version of the LETYPE include.  You could 
simplify the prototype considerabley at the expense of some flexibility.  
Note that the timestamp is not an ISO format timestamp (indeed, the API will 
take any sort of date/time input as long as it can be described by a 
supported picture string).

H DFTACTGRP(*NO)                                                        
D INT2_           S              5I 0                                   
D INT4_           S             10I 0                                   
D UINT2_          S              5U 0                                   
D UINT4_          S             10U 0                                   
D BITS_           S              1A                                     
D CHAR_           S              1                                      
D CHAR1_          S              1                                      
D CHAR255_        S            255                                      
D FLOAT8_         S              8F                                     
D VSTRING_        DS                  INZ                               
D  l2pstring                    +2    LIKE(CHAR255_) OVERLAY(VSTRING_)  
D    l2len                            LIKE(INT2_)                       
D                                     OVERLAY(l2pstring : 00001)        
D    l2string                         LIKE(CHAR255_)                    
D                                     OVERLAY(l2pstring : 00003)        
D  l4pstring                    +4    LIKE(CHAR255_) OVERLAY(VSTRING_)  
D    l4len                            LIKE(INT4_)                       
D                                     OVERLAY(l4pstring : 00001)        
D    l4string                         LIKE(CHAR255_)                    
D                                     OVERLAY(l4pstring : 00005)        
D  stringz                            OVERLAY(VSTRING_) LIKE(CHAR1_)    
D FEEDBACK_       DS                  INZ                               
D  MsgSev                             LIKE(UINT2_)                          
D  MsgNbr                             LIKE(UINT2_)                          
D  Flags                              LIKE(BITS_)                           
D    Case                             LIKE(BITS_) OVERLAY(Flags)            
D    Severity                         LIKE(BITS_) OVERLAY(Flags)            
D    Control                          LIKE(BITS_) OVERLAY(Flags)            
D  Facility_ID                        LIKE(CHAR_) DIM(3)                    
D  I_S_Info                           LIKE(UINT4_)                          
                                                                            
D CeeCvtTimestampToSecs... 
D                 PR       
D                                     EXTPROC('CEESECS')                    
D                                     OPDESC                                
D   timeStamp                         LIKE(VSTRING_) OPTIONS(*VARSIZE)CONST 
D   picture                           LIKE(VSTRING_) OPTIONS(*VARSIZE)CONST 
D   seconds                           LIKE(FLOAT8_)                         
D   feedbackCode                      LIKE(FEEDBACK_) OPTIONS(*OMIT)        
                                                                            
D aTimestamp      S             23    INZ('2001-07-26 14:00:23.123')        
D aPictureString  S             23    INZ('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS.999')        
D theNbrOfSecs    S              8F                              
         
                                                                            
C                   CALLP     CeeCvtTimestampToSecs( aTimestamp :               
          
C                                                    aPictureString :           
          
C                                                    theNbrOfSecs :             
          
C                                                    *OMIT )                    
  
                                                                    
C     theNbrOfSecs  DSPLY                                           
                                                                    
C                   SETON                                        LR 
C                   RETURN                                          

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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