Unfortunately, I am at the mercy of the clients where java, C, Python, and
other languages that they perceive to be non-iSeries are taboo. I've never
understood the mentality of "we can't use that because iSeries people don't
know the languages and non-iSeries people can't support it because it is on
the iSeries.
I will look into CLI but will probably take Buck's suggestion of casting
everything...at least for phase 1.
I really can't believe IBM didn't take that last step to figure out how to
put values from the descriptor into a generic sized variable. Let me define
variables of 32K (or whatever) for chars, 13,15 for decimals, etc. and be
able to use them generically.
-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Jones
Sent: Monday, September 4, 2017 12:03 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Building dynamic SQL with descriptors
I agree. Using a language that handles the dynamic memory allocation and
management would make this task a lot easier.
While I've never used CLI, I'm familiar with its capabilities, and it would
be a very good choice to use for this as well.
This should certainly be possible in RPG, but with a lot more work.
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