Re: MAIN PI/PR and parameter

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

assuming you are doing CALL MYPROG ('/home' '3') from the command line...

You are running into the well known 32-character default length issue of
the command interpreter.

Basically, the system doesn't know '/home' should be placed into a variable
255 bytes long.

Best fix is to build a command front end which would allow you to tell the
system how big the parm is.

You could pad out the value, but you'd actually need to pad it out to 256
and the 256th character needs to be non-blank.  Otherwise the system trims
it back to '/home' and you are back where you started.

HTH,
Charles


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Robert Clay <zreclay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is really weird.
>
> I'm creating a new SQLRPGLE program and it needs two entry parms. I set
> up the entry procedure PR and PI like this:
>
> d Main            PR                  ExtPgm('MYPROG')
> d                              255
> d                                3
>
> d Main            PI
> d  InputDir                    255
> d  InputDays                     3
>
> Walking it thru debug, with parm values '/home' and '3', InputDir shows
> this:
>
>  > EVAL InputDir
>    INPUTDIR =
> ....5...10...15...20...25...30...35...40...45...50...55...60
>         1   '/home 3                          '
>        61 '                                                            '
>       121 '                                                            '
>       181 '                                                            '
>       241   ' '
>
> Why are both parameters being passed in a single parm?
>
> Are there limits to the length of input parms?  I've searched but I can
> find no reference to any limits.  I'd guess that there are some.  I've
> changed InputDir to be as small as 10 (which won't work in practice) but
> I still get the combined values being passed in together.
>
> This is V6R1M0 with all current PTFs.
>
> I've signed out and back in with no joy.
>
> The PR/PI are last, just before the first free-form C-spec.
>
> Creating the Main PR/PI like this has worked in the past but I'm stumped
> as to why it isn't working this time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
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