No. of Parameters (RPGIII) -- RPG400-L

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Hi all,



Can someone tell me what is the maximum number of parameters that can be
passed to a RPG program?



Thanks in advance.
Regards,

Hrishikesh Kotwal

>From: Scott Klement
>Reply-To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
>To: "'rpg400-l@midrange.com'"
>Subject: RE: Reverse DNS Lookup...
>Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 01:27:47 -0600 (CST)
>
>
>You're on the right track, but not quite right.
>
>MX is a mail exchanger record. In other words, it points to a host
>that can receive mail for a given domain, and really is beside the
>point here, as it only affects e-mail.
>
>The "A" record, is "forward" DNS, in other words its used to convert
>a domain name to an IP address.
>
>The "PTR" record is "reverse" DNS, which is used when converting an
>IP address into a name.
>
>Also, when setting up "reverse" (IP to name) DNS, you have to lay out
>the domain in a rather unusual way. If your IP is '192.168.0.1' then
>the reverse DNS would be set up as "1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" note
>that the numbers are in the reverse order from those of the IP address.
>
>If you're setting up DNS for the first time, I strongly suggest reading
>the book called "DNS and BIND" which is available from O'Reilly. It's
>designed for the UNIX name server (i.e. BIND, or Berkeley Internet Name
>Daemon) but is the "bible" for ISPs running DNS. The concepts that it
>explains apply to every DNS server, be it UNIX, NT or OS/400.
>
>
>
>On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Jim Langston wrote:
>
> > DNS entries for machines have an MX and an A record.
> >
> > The MX stands for Mail Exchange. Not sure what the A
> > records stands for. One converts from the name to the
> > IP address, once converts from the IP address to the
> > name.
> >
> > If you can not do a reverse DNS lookup on specific
> > hosts, I would suspect they are missing one of these
> > records (I believe the A records is IP to Name).
> >
> > Try other IP addresses that you know have both records.
> > Here's a good example. In windows go to a DOS prompt.
> > type:
> > ping www.midrage.com
> > that tells us the IP address is 63.167.147.106.
> > then type:
> > ping -a 63.167.147.106
> > No name comes back. Looks like David doesn't have an
> > 'A' record for his DNS entry.
> >
> > If we do the same for www.microsoft.com:
> > ping www.microsoft.com (207.46.197.101)
> > ping -a 207.46.197.101 (microsoft.com)
> >
> > Microsoft does have an 'A' record associated with it's
> > DNS entry.
> >
> > Sorry for showing this in PC commands, not positive what
> > the AS/400 commands are (and my AS/400 isn't connected to
> > the internet anyway).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jim Langston
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:53 PM
> > To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: Reverse DNS Lookup...
> >
> > I can't do reverse lookup on your "www.ctlaltdel.org" either. Not with
> > the program, not with the UNIX "host" command, not with the NSLOOKUP
> > command... it does not appear to have reverse DNS associated with it.
> >
> > The 216.115.108.245 does work from my AS/400, however.
> >
> > The other example (the one that you originally posted) is one that I would
> > never use in production :) It may work some of the time, but it surely
> > will also fail some of the time. Really. Use the one that I posted, or
> > another one that's written correctly :)
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Borts wrote:
> >
> > > OK - Cut & pasted your results. Compiled (it compiled on the first time
> > > - stop showing off!) and I still get blanks returned. I even tried
> > > using the example that Peter gave of 216.115.108.245 to do my lookup
> > > instead of my home server (www.ctlaltdel.org ) and STILL got blanks.
> > >
> > > I'm leaning toward setting up the DNS server on my AS/400 @ home, and
> > > trying the code there...
> > >
> > >
> > > Andrew Borts / Webmaster
>
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