Re: Parameter lengths and calling from command line

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all... I guess I HAD been in the habit of building commands to 
run the program but I certainly had forgotten that....

You folks also gave me some other approaches which I may check out, but 
wrapping it with a command was the easiest and it works great.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 2/11/2015 4:20 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:
> I have spent too much time in the Java/JavaScript world apparently 
> because I have been attempting to write what I thought was a simple 
> RPGLE program which I can call from a command line.  The problem is 
> that the parameter, which is a character type, 256 in length, gets 
> padded with "unexpected" contents beyond what I am submitting on the 
> command line.  If I submit it like so:
>
> CALL PGM(MYPGM) PARM(This is a test')   I see something like this when 
> I view the contents in either debug or the receiving program:
>
> This is a testRPGLESRC MYLIBRAY MYPGM ??*SRCMBRTXT ‑ 1? *HEX *JOBRUN1 
> 0 *NEW 0*LIBCRTAUT1 *CURRENT0*NONE
>
> I understand, from reading numerous posts, that this is normal 
> behavior but my attempts to follow the directions to eliminate the 
> issue seems for naught.  I couldn't find an example program in all of 
> MY libraries that does something similar without the side effects (I 
> could have sworn I have written RPG programs like this before).
>
> The program has these Prototypes/Procedure interfaces:
>
> D mypgm        pr                  extpgm('MYPGM')
> D   text                   256A   varying const options(*trim)
>
> D mypgm       pi
> D   text                   256A   varying const options(*trim)
>
> I originally defined 'text' as 256A  but saw the spurious characters.  
> So I tried options(*varsize), same result.   So I tried varying const 
> options(*trim).  No joy  ( get a variable out of range error).  It is 
> a little early in the week to be going brain dead but apparently I 
> have.  I can't seem to sort this out.
>
> I want to pass a character string of up to 256 characters into this 
> program and only get the characters typed as the parameter value. What 
> am I missing?