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

Well, you COULD call from the command line, it'd just be very awkward :-) You'd have to give the parameter in hex, using the first 2 bytes as the length, and then providing (at least) 999 characters (since it's in hex, that'd be 1998 hex digits) to force the field length to 999.

Definitely much easier to call from a program...

On 7/2/2014 3:14 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:

On 2014-07-02 15:20, Gqcy wrote:

Barbara...
I am trying to test this, but I must not be putting parms in correctly...
program TEST101 is modules TEST101 (c module) and RPGMAIN (rpgle module)
call TEST101 PARM('parm1' 'abc' 'not_abc' 'last_parm')

I get a "length of varying lengh variable is out of range"
and the var parm has a value of "rm1 abc not_abc ....

The program expects varying length parameters, so you can't call it from
the command line. You have to write a calling program that passes the
parameters correctly.

dcl-pr cmain extpgm('CMAIN');
p1 varchar(999) const;
p2 varchar(999) const;
p3 varchar(999) const;
p4 varchar(999) const;
p5 varchar(999) const;
p6 varchar(999) const;
end-pr;
cmain ('abc' : 'def' : 'abc' : '1' : 'abcd' : 'abc');
return;