Re: Prompt Override Program - Correct RPG ILE parameters? -- RPG400-L


On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Reger, Bill wrote:

I have been doing way too much managing and not enough coding so I am abit rusty. I can't seem to figure out what the prototype and PI specsshould be for a command "Prompt Override Program" (POP) written in RPGILE. POP parameters are not documented well anywhere.


What sort of problem are you having with the parameters?

    D                 PR                  EXTPGM('CMDPOPPGM')
    D  i_Cmd                        20A
    D  i_Obj                        20A
    D  i_ObjType                    10A
    D  i_LenStr                     10I 0
    D  i_String                   1024A   options(*varsize: *nopass)

The first parm should be 20A. Chars 1-10 are the command name, and chars11-20 are the library.


The 2nd, 3rd, 4th parms are the key parms from your program.

The last one is the command string which should be 32767.

Assuming that i_Obj, i_ObjType and i_LenStr match your key parms (theylook like they might) then your prototype should work fine with thefollowing notes:

a) You need to give the prototype and it's corresponding PI a name. Youcan't leave the name blank. Maybe set it to "CMDPOPPGM".

b) You've only defined 1k for the command string, but this should onlymatter if you can't fit your output info into that 1k. You don't need*varsize or *nopass, though they won't hurt anything.

c) I'd consider marking the i_cmd, i_Obj, i_ObjType and i_LenStr parmswith "CONST" since your program isn't supposed to change them, and this'llprovide a little extra validity checking in the code.

d) The PI should be identifical to the prototype (aside from the lettersPI instead of PR, and the PI does not get an "EXTPGM")

The documentation for Prompt Override Programs is in Chapter 9 of the CLProgramming manual.


What sort of errors are you having?