Re: Passing equivalent of VB value vbNull in an RPG Program

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you saying that this value is being passed in a stored procedure call
from the PC side? If yes, if the field is null, the OS always passes the
null as a 0 or 1 flag.


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Just curious if anyone can answer this with certainty before I research
> more.
>
> Have an RPG field as such to represent Null value:
> D Null            S              1A   Inz(X'00')
>
> Customer needs to pass this value to an API call in one of our service
> programs and it goes thru EBCDIC to ASCII translation.
>
> Anyone know if this actually translates to an appropriate PC null value ?
>
> If not, do you know what character might translate to vbNull.
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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