RE: Need Help On a Problem

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Bob Cozzi
>
> Ah... you can't pass binary data as a parm to a CALL on a submit
> job command
> and expect it to "behave".
> Meaning, if you embed "binary" data in the middle of "text" the
> binary data
> will be treated as the character equivalent of the binary data. Hence if
> B'0125' is a QUOTE you will have a QUOTE in your parameter string.
> What can you do about it? Not much short of wrapping the call in something
> that can read the data structure and then call the program;
> passing the data
> as a parm via compiled-call will work, of course.
> -Bob Cozzi

Wow.  Heckuva good catch, Bob!

Binary 0125 = hex '7D' = quote character

I'd have pulled a few hairs before coming up with that one!

db