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  3. October 2006

Passing a data structure as a parm

I have a whole mess of data elements that I need to pass to another program so I thought that using a data structure would be more concise than something like: PGM(parm1:parm2:...parm13); . I think Bob's book (4th ed.) explained how to do this with prototypes, but, since it'll be awhile before I can actually get around to testing this, I thought perhaps someone might have suggestions or criticisms (both willingly accepted) of how I implemented it. Code samples are below. D SIPROTO DS D #End 1A D blitm# D blsqty D bltxcd D bllc01 D bllc02 D bllc03 D blcust D blref# D dlspst D dlsp01 D dlsp02 D dlsp03 D SIU002 PR ExtPgm('SIU002') D SIUAddr Like(SiProto) 
Later the actual "call":


SIU002(SiProto);

SIU002 (the humble callee) has this as the prototype:
D SIU002 PR D Parms Like(SiProto) D SIU002 PI D InParms Like(SiProto) D SiProto DS Based(pSiProto) D #End 1A D #Item 5S 0 D #Qty 5P 0 D #TaxCode 5A D #Local1 5A D #Local2 5A D #Local3 5A D #Cust 5S 0 D #Ref 6S 0 D #StStamps 5P 0 D #Lc1Stamps 5P 0 D #Lc2Stamps 5P 0 D #Lc3Stamps 5P 0 

Then, as the first step in the program:

pSiProto  = %Addr(inParms);
Am I doing this right? 
Thanks.

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