Re: Passing data structure to batch job RESOLVED

Why not pad the data structure?
d dsName...
d ds qualified
d Pad1...
d 1a
d Afield...
d 6a
d BField...
d 6a
d Pad2...
d 1a

if you have a select filling just

select cast('X' as char(1)),
AField,
BField,
Cast('Y' as char(1))

Otherwise use an Inz.

Or just define a data structure without the pad and do a EVAL-CORR in the
sending and receiving.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:55 PM, DeLong, Eric <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Michael,

I think you're flirting with disaster... Perhaps this works as you expect
today, but this technique is really unsafe and unreliable.

When the command line parser takes apart your string, it will trim
trailing blanks from the parameter values being parsed. If you can
guarantee that your data structure will never have trailing blanks, then
you're safe enough to do it this way. Otherwise, the command parser will
reserve enough storage to contain the trimmed data. If this length is not
the same as the parm length defined in your program, then you could get
garbage at the end of your DS...

Chuck's HEX trick is really clever...

-Eric DeLong

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Koester, Michael
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:41 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: 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?


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