RE: Passing data structure to batch job RESOLVED

Okay, Tommy Holden gets all the extra points!
My test program that submits the longer-running job just successfully passed the data-structure as a parm, intact, and without having to "hexify" anything. Debugging the submitted job showed all the subfields have the intended values, and all is cool.

// Where NMS_OrderDetails is the name of the data structure from the copybook
// and PROVSN_NMS is the program that will run from a different job queue because
// it takes awhile...

Command = 'SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(PROVSN_NMS) PARM('''
+ NMS_OrderDetails
+ ''')) JOB(TESTING) jobq(QBATCH4)';

CallP QCMDEXC(%trim(COMMAND) : %len(%trim(COMMAND)));

Who would have thought it would be that easy. (Not me, obviously)

Thanks to all for the elegant (if perhaps more complicated than necessary) ideas.

-- Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:01 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: Passing data structure to batch job

Will the DS ever be larger than 5000 characters? If not then why not just create a command that accepts a single parm and use the command on the SBMJOB?