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  3. June 2003

Re: %parms value when calling from SQL UDF.

Hi Barbara,

Could you elaborate on this quote from the same manual?

"For the main procedure, %PARMS is the same as *PARMS."

That is, how is it different in a sub procedure?

tia,
Peter Dow
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From: "Barbara Morris"
> >From the %PARMS section of the ILE RPG Reference
> (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/books/c092508402.htm)
> 
> "The value returned by %PARMS is not available if the program or
> procedure that calls %PARMS does not pass a minimal operational
> descriptor. The ILE RPG compiler always passes one, but other languages
> do not. So if the caller is written in another ILE language, it will
> need to pass an operational descriptor on the call. If the operational
> descriptor is not passed, the value returned by %PARMS cannot be
> trusted. "

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