Re: Pass MODS as parm in Free Format

IIRC, you have to make sure you've reset to the first occurrence before
passing it as a parm.

Switching to an DS array would eliminate that requirement.

Charles

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon,
Thank you,
So in the prototype, I would define the entry using LikeDs(MODS) and in

the

receiving pgm it would be able to access all occurrences?
D My_Pgm extpgm('xxxx')
D Parm_Ds likeds(MODS)

D MODS Ds Occurs(90)


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Define the parm as LIKEDS(xxxxxxxx)

Easy.

There is zero need to play with pointers these days for this kind of

parm.

A DS array would be better of course and could actually be passed as a
MODS since internally they are the same. But it would also use LikeDS

so

no

difference there.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jun 24, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All,
From an RPGLE Free Format program, I need to call another RPGLE

program

that accepts a MODS as one of its parms. Since this program is in

Fixed

Format as are all other programs calling it, they just pass the MODS

as a

parm with no problem.
In Free format, I need to define the call via a prototype, and can

not

determine how to prototype the MODS.
Is there a way to do this or do I need to use the Fixed Format CALL

op-code?

TIA,

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst
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