Re: Vendor call returns up to 200 varying parms back, looking for easy way to scan it all.

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From: Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jul 2, 2014 7:21 AM
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Vendor call returns up to 200 varying parms back, looking for easy way to scan it all.

can you post the PR prototype of the procedure or program? Are you saying
each pass by reference output parameter is a different length? like 20a
varying, 30a varying ...

my approach would be to write a program that would generate the repeating
code you need. Have that code generate the code you need for each
parameter. Then write the generated code to a srcmbr and copy the source
into your actual source code.

-Steve



On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Chris <cholko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hence the problem, they are not all the same size. The varying means we
get results of different sizes in each parm.


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From: Scott Mildenberger <SMildenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jul 1, 2014 11:50 AM
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <

rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: RE: Vendor call returns up to 200 varying parms back, looking

for easy way to scan it all.

If they are the all the same size use an array element for the

parameters, then you can loop through the array easily to determine if they
contain data.

Scott


Using a third party product, one of the call into their product supports

200 999a varying *nopass parameters. Other than select/if constructs does
anyone have a suggestion of quickly scanning all these returned parameters
to see if they contain data? The call into their product does return the
number of these that are used, just not which of them that contains valid
data as some can be blank

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Example, there are 200 of these. I get different lengths back from each parm.

D ivUserParam001 999A OPTIONS(*NOPASS)
D VARYING

D ivUserParam002 999A OPTIONS(*NOPASS)
D VARYING

D ivUserParam003 999A OPTIONS(*NOPASS)
D VARYING

D ivUserParam004 999A OPTIONS(*NOPASS)
D VARYING

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