RE: Dynamic call with procedure pointers

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That will work if I wasn't using /Free.  Making a dynamic call in /Free
appears as if it is not possible with CALLP (CALL and CALLB aren't available
in /Free).

If I do something like the following:

pgm = 'RECSHPNOT';
CALLP pgm(inputFile: outputFile);

it thinks I am trying to reference 'pgm' as an array rather than use the
value in 'pgm'.

Anybody think of a way I can do this in /Free?  It looks like I will have to
go back to fixed for this particular situation. . .

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Buck [mailto:buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:52 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Dynamic call with procedure pointers


> It seems I have run into a little bit of trouble with trying to get the
> pointer of a program.  I have a *PGM called RECSHPNOT that I am trying to
> obtain a pointer to so I can call it dynamically.

I may be confused, but if you are trying to call a *PGM object, why not use
the CALL operation code with a variable name.  Something like

select
when something
eval pgmname = 'RECSHPNOT'
endsl

call pgmname

This is as dynamic as it gets.

If you are trying to run a procedure within RECSHPNOT (on the fly), then
perhaps you need to recompile RECSHPNOT so that it is a *SRVPGM object?
  --buck



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