RE: Plain old RPGLE program in /Free

Pete,

This is a FAQ. I think the problem is you're missing EXTPGM on your
prototype. It must be the same name as the program and you have to
specify it in uppercase.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:41 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Plain old RPGLE program in /Free

I was feeling pretty comfortable with my transition from RPGIII to RPGLE

and /free until I needed to write a program from scratch that wasn't
using *ENTRY to pass parms to the program. I must not understand the
differences between the way RPGIII passed parameters and the way RPGLE
operates.

What I have been doing (cheating) was to have a short, initial non-free
calculation section like this:

C *ENTRY PLIST
C PARM MyParm
C/free

What I want to do is to do it "correctly". So after poking around the
Internet I thought I came up with the solution:

D Main PR
D 8A
D*********************************************************
D*Main Procedure
D*********************************************************
P Main B
D PI
D MyParm 8A
C/free
// Body of the program here

It wouldn't compile until I used dftactgrp(*no) actgrp(*caller) on the H

specs.

Although it compiles, when I run it in debug mode, the program is
invoked but "hangs" at the command line, it never progresses to the
first statement of the program which is where I have my breakpoint set.

So the question is: What is the correct way to write a simple program
in RPGLE that takes parameters? What do I do with the *ENTRY PLIST
method of passing parameters? I could go back to using the *ENTRY PLIST

approach but I'd like to use the "correct" way, if there is such a
thing...

Thanks,

Pete Helgren