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Ok, a more clear example. It works in a stand alone program, I have
trouble when it's in a called procedure. I must be missing something.
 
Here's the three complete programs I just ran on my system.... (excuse
my crappy cut/past formatting. Always hated it)
************************************************************************
*******************************************
#1 (works)
 
 /copy *LIBL/CPYSRC,HSPECS
 
D myInpFmt        S             10A   Inz('*DTS')                
D myInpVar        S             17A   Inz(x'89A37F16E9B68000')   
D myOutFmt        S             10A   Inz('*YYMD')               
D myOutput        S             17A                              
                                                                 
 /copy *LIBL/CPYSRC,ERRC0100                                     
                                                                 
C                   Call(E)   'QWCCVTDT'                         
C                   Parm                    myInpFmt             
C                   Parm                    myInpVar             
C                   Parm                    myOutFmt             
C                   Parm                    myOutput             
C                   Parm                    ERRC0100             
C     MyOutput      Dsply                                        
C                   Eval      *INLR = *On     
************************************************************************
********************************************
I get the right date (DSPLY  20050516132424437)
 
Now - parent program for a called module:
************************************************************************
*********************************************
 /copy *LIBL/CPYSRC,HSPECS                                     
H DFTACTGRP(*NO) ACTGRP(*CALLER)                               
H BNDDIR('*LIBL/FXM_BNDDIR')                                   
                                                               
D FXM_Convert_Date_And_Time_Format...                          
D                 PR            17A   Varying                  
D InpFmt                        10A   Const                    
D InpVar                        17A   Const                    
D OutFmt                        10A   Const                    
D ErrorCode                           LikeDS(ERRC0100)         
                                                               
 /copy *LIBL/CPYSRC,ERRC0100                                   
                                                               
D myInpFmt        S             10A   Inz('*DTS')              
D myInpVar        S             17A   Inz(x'89A37F16E9B68000') 
D myOutFmt        S             10A   Inz('*YYMD')             
D myOutVar        S             17A                            
                                                                   
C                   Eval      myOutVar =                           
C                               FXM_Convert_Date_And_Time_Format(  
C                                 myInpFmt:myInpVar:myOutFmt:      
C                                 ERRC0100)                        
C     MyOutvar      Dsply                                          
C                   Eval      *INLR = *On                          
************************************************************************
*************************************
And the module (compiled as type *module):
 
************************************************************************
*************************************
 /copy *LIBL/CPYSRC,ERRC0100                               
                                                           
D FXM_Convert_Date_And_Time_Format...                      
D                 PR            17A   Varying              
D InpFmt                        10A   Const                
D InpVar                        17A   Const                
D OutFmt                        10A   Const                
D ErrorCode                           LikeDS(ERRC0100)     
                                                           
P FXM_Convert_Date_And_Time_Format...                      
P                 B                   Export               
                                                           
D FXM_Convert_Date_And_Time_Format...                      
D                 PI            17A   Varying              
D InpFmt                        10A   Const               
D InpVar                        17A   Const               
D OutFmt                        10A   Const               
D ErrorCode                           LikeDS(ERRC0100)    
                                                          
 *                                                        
 ** Local Variables                                       
 *                                                        
                                                          
D myInpFmt        S             10A                       
D myInpVar        S             17A                       
D myOutFmt        S             10A                       
D myOutput        S             17A                       
D myERRC0100      DS                  LikeDS(ERRC0100)    
                                                          
 *                                                        
 ** Prepare                                               
 *                                                                 
C                   Clear                   ERRC0100               
C                   Eval      ERRC0100.ErrBytPvd = %SIZE(ERRC0100) 
C                   Eval      myInpFmt = InpFmt                    
C                   Eval      myInpVar = InpVar                    
C                   Eval      myOutFmt = OutFmt                    
C                   Eval      myOutput = *Blanks                   
                                                                   
C                   Call(E)   'QWCCVTDT'                           
C                   Parm                    myInpFmt               
C                   Parm                    myInpVar               
C                   Parm                    myOutFmt               
C                   Parm                    myOutput               
C                   Parm                    ERRC0100               
C                   Return    myOutput                             
                                                                   
P FXM_Convert_Date_And_Time_Format...                              
P                 E     
************************************************************************
************
and the result is DSPLY  20410310170337790
 
 - They should be doing the same thing, shouldn't they? I ran this exact
code on my system just now.
(I didn't even want to substitute out the copy books in the example for
fear I might remove one line incorrectly or something....)
 
*Oh - I use a lot of copy books. The contents of the copy books used
are:
 
ERRC0100
 
D ERRC0100        DS                  QUALIFIED             
D   ErrBytPvd                   10I 0 INZ(%SIZE(ERRC0100))  
D   ErrBytAvl                   10I 0 INZ(0)                
D   ErrExcId                     7A   INZ(*Blanks)          
D   ErrRsvd                      1A                         
D   ErrExcDta                  512A   INZ(*Blanks)          
 
HSPECS
 
H DEBUG                                       
H DECEDIT(*JOBRUN)                            
H OPTIMIZE(*NONE)                             
H OPTION(*srcstmt : *nodebugio : *showcpy)    
H TIMFMT(*HMS)                                
 
Very confused why the differences
 
JPW

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