RE: Quick question (and I think it's come up before)

James,

Because you specifically mentioned ILE there is another way to
accomplish this.

If you prototype the call you can use the keyword *NOPASS to accomplish
what has been mentioned in the other replies.  It works the same way as
having a fixed parm list and not passing all of them.

Also on prototyped calls you can use the *OMIT keyword which allows you
to omit parameters in the middle of the list.  Instead of passing a
parameter you would use *OMIT as the parameter value.  The called
program would then test for the address of the parameter.  If it is not
null a value was passed, is it is null the parameter was omitted.

In the caller you would have:
d LstMbrs         pr              *                         
d                               20                          
d                               10    Options(*NOPASS: *OMIT)
d                               20    Options(*NOPASS: *OMIT)
d                                8    Options(*NOPASS: *OMIT)
d                                1    Options(*NOPASS: *OMIT)

 /Free

        LstMbrs(Parm1 :*Omit :*Omit :Parm4 :Parm5);

 /End-Free

In the called program you would check for the parms something like this:
 * If a member name value is passed use it, else default to '*ALL'.

c                   If        %parms < 2 Or %Addr(P_MbrNme) = *NULL

c                   Eval      MbrNme = '*ALL'



c                   Else

c                   Eval      MbrNme = P_MbrNme

c                   EndIf



 * If no user space name given use default.

c                   If        %parms < 3 or %Addr(P_QualUsrSpc) = *NULL
or
c                               P_QualUsrSpc = *blanks

c                   Eval      QualUsrSpc = DftSpcNme



c                   Else

c                   Eval      QualUsrSpc = P_QualUsrSpc

c                   Endif                           

Rick                    

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> Subject: Quick question (and I think it's come up before)
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> Fellow geeks:
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> Is there a way to have a couple of optional parameters in an
> ILE RPG program?
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