RE: Error on compile - SOLVED

Np.  I'm glad to have helped... at least that's one for the list I don't 
owe now lol.

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That's what I would have thought, but none the less, I really appreciate 
everyone's assistance and help...this is one mistake I will not repeat 
twice :)


On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:34:16 -0230, RPower wrote
> Yep.
> The QCMDEXC api requires the command, and the length of the command 
> you are sending it.  Not sure why, considering it could've figured 
> that out itself, but it could be for error checking to be sure that 
> it doesn't truncate what you are sending it.
> 
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> 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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