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I didn't think it went into using a command to get around the 15,5
limitation imposed by a CALL used via SBMJOB.

Rob Berendt
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Rob Berendt wrote:

> Definetly isn't.  Those faq's do not deal with the numeric.  They deal
> more with mismatched strings.

Are you sure? From the FAQ:

Now that you know the system is creating variables behind the scene, you
might wonder how it knows what size those variables need to be. The answer
is that it doesn't. Instead, the designers have imposed some specific
rules
about how literals are transformed to variables, and thereby passed as
parameters.
CL supports only three basic data types: character, decimal, and logical.
For the purposes of this discussion, you can consider the logical data
type
equivalent to the character type, because it's treated in the same manner.

The simplest rule is the one that handles decimal literals. All decimal
literals will be converted to packed decimal format with a length of (15
5),
where the value is 15 digits long, of which 5 digits are decimal places.
Therefore, any program that you expect to call from the command line, or
SBMJOB etc., needs to declare it's numeric input parameters as *DEC(15 5).

and....

Things to Remember
-always match the type/size of parameters on your pgm to pgm calls.
-remember that the system converts literals to variables in the
background.
-remember that decimal literals are always converted to *DEC(15 5).
-and that char literals less than or equal to 32 bytes are converted to
*CHAR(32).
-and that char literals greater than 32 bytes are converted to variables
of
equivalent size.


The numeric didn't receive as much attention as strings because it's not
that complicated. Still, maybe what's there isn't clear enough. However,
you
can always go in and add some additional information.

Regards,

John Taylor




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