Re: Passing unwanted parameters

On 14/01/2009, at 9:17 AM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

My puzzlement is that I don't know where the EXTRAPARM data area is being
created. I assumed it was in the initialization (effectively in the *INZSR),
but when I created an RPG/400 program and compiled it with GENOPT (*LIST), I
couldn't see where the data area is either created or retrieved. Mind you,
things may have changed between RPG/400 and RPGLE (and indeed, my MI may be
a little rusty), but I'm damned if I can see where the program creates the
data area. Maybe the RPG runtime creates it...

My guess is the RPG run-time does it. You should see a call to QRGXIOU in both the program INIT section and program TERMINATION section. This is responsible for fetching and updated the data area content. It seems reasonable to presume that it also creates the data area in QTEMP.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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