RE: Error on compile

Ok,
In order to understand this a bit more....the api is requiring that I send 
as a parm the length of the cmd string?  

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:17:39 -0230, RPower wrote
> Ah, I see the problem Doug.
> It's not YOUR RPG that's bombing due to it's the QCMDEXEC that's bombing.
> You're only sending it one parm, it's expecting 2 or 3.
> Change this:
>      C                   CALL      'QCMDEXC'
>      C                   PARM                    CMD
> 
> To use the following source.
> 
>      DCMD              S            200A
>      DCMDLEN           S             15P 5
> 
>      C                   EVAL      CMDLEN = %LEN(CMD)
>      C                   CALL      'QCMDEXC'
>      C                   PARM                    CMD
>      C                   PARM                    CMDLEN
> 
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> This is not a CL program, its strictly an rpgle calling another rpgle
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:21:36 -0500 (CDT), Scott Klement wrote
> > > It did allow it to compile but it is still giving the same error that 
> I 
> am
> > > not passing the correct number of parameters.
> > >
> > 
> > How are you calculating the length of the CMD string?  Is it 
> > possible that this value is wrong?  or, are you using the system() 
> > API, and therefore don't need a length?
> > 
> > After all of the posts in this thread so far, it appears that you've 
> > got the string formatted properly -- but if the length is wrong, it 
> > might not be seeing all of the parms.
> > 
> > Also, ILE RPG programs don't typically issue an error message when 
> > you call them if you don't pass the correct number of parameters. 
> > Instead, they let the programmer use %parms and other tricks to test 
> > for parameters being omitted.
> > 
> > Are you calling an OPM CL program?
> > 
> > If not, I'd be curious to see the error message. It's possible that 
> > you're troubleshooting the wrong part of the program.  Perhaps 
> > you're calling QCAPCMD and passing the wrong number of parmeters to 
> > that API, rather than the program that you're submitting to batch.
> > 
> > It sure would help if you wrote a very simple proof of concept 
> > program that just accepts the parms and submits the job.  Very short,
> >  very simple. Then, if you can't get it to work, you can post that 
> > program on the list, and we'll be able to try it as well.
> > 
> > Just a thought.
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