Re: dynamic sql - receive fetched row values into host variables

Vern or Dave (or whoever can answer :))...

so now the handler is working...

I have two small test pgms that call the handler... for a different file in
each pgm...

when i signon and call the pgm for the first one, it works everytime...
then when I call the second pgm, the test pgm fails with
The target for a numeric operation is too small to hold the result.

however if i sign off and back on and call the 2nd test pgm first, it works
fine... it just doesn't like the handler being called with a different file
the second call...

what is that?

both test pgm and handler running in...

h dftActGrp(*No) actGrp(*caller)



On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The latter. Thx! I'll consider what you said.
On Oct 18, 2017 10:58 AM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yeah, sometimes better structure is the one that works.

As I recall, I have calls to procedures to do conversion - after that,
there's not much structure to deal with - at least in my simple example.

I don't know how to help much here - did you pass the entire nvInput
structure as a parameter? Or use a return value that is what you want to
put in FLD? The latter might initialize stuff coming in, which is what
the behavior sounds like.

Questions - questions - questions!! Good luck on this.

Vern

On 10/18/2017 9:40 AM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

However as an attempt to better structure the code I created a

procedure passing fld to return the value. Also to contain the null value
handling code. And as soon as I did that it messed up the pointer
reference or something because when it returned, all the field names were
missing from nvInput

On Oct 17, 2017 9:40 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Outstanding!! Glad it works for you!

Vern

On 10/17/2017 7:23 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

Vern. Hallelujah. I used your doRead code, compiled, ran and it

worked!

Now to tighten up the pgm and be done.
On Oct 17, 2017 4:02 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

The pointers can get you stuck, I know - little joke there!

The stuff in my COMMON presentation has example code in the doRead
procedure, which I'll show here:

D nvInputdslikeds(QrnNamesValues_T)

Dbased(@nvInput)

D islike(TInt)

D lenslike(TInt)

D flddslikeds(QrnNameValue_T)

Dbased(@Fld)

d valslike(T4096String) based(@val)

d rtnBufferslike(T4096String)

d tempValslike(T4096String)

d float4s4f

d float8s8f

nvInput is the names and values for a single record in your RPG

program

- it has all the structure you need - I would not move your local DS
into it, as you've broken some pointer relationship, seems to me, in
doing that.

@nvInput is the address to this DS as given to you by RPG in the
namesValues element of the handler DS, and I set @nvInput to that,

as here:

@nvInput= pHdlrInfo.namesValues;


Now you have an RPG variable that is actually the content that is

at the

address namesValues - you don't need an extra DS, you work with

this one.

Now you get each field's value from the SELECT statement (I used a
4096-character variable, tempval), up to the number of fields,

which is

an element of nvInput.

for i= 1 to nvInput.num;

Then you derefence a couple more pointers, for clarity, I suppose:

I set

@fld to the address of the i-th element in the handler NV fields

array,

and then base the val variable on the pointer in the field DS that

has

the address of the actual textual data - everything is text here.

// Set pointers for variables - makes debugging easier

@fld= %addr(nvInput.field(i));

@val= fld.value;

Then you do some conversion from the value you got from the SELECT
(convert to character representation that RPG would do with %char),

get

the length you can use - there's a maximum length in the fld

structure -

then set val to what you want it to be:

fld.valueLenBytes= len;

// Set value

%subst(val: 1 : len) = tempVal;
end for;

You are working directly here with the memory space you are given

by the

OA runtime from RPG - no extra DS to muddy the waters.

HTH
Vern

On 10/17/2017 1:54 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

i honestly don't know what the structure value pointer is!

the OAR has a the main ds that is passed as parm to handler, i

call p_dsIO

that ds references a pointer called namesValues, which contains

another DS

of pointers. :) :) :) :)

I'm buried in f'n pointers!

So when i want to assign something to the p_dsIO.namesValues, i

create a

local ds...

d l_dsNames ds likeds(QrnNamesValues_T)
d based(l_dsNames#)

and I reference by l_dsNames.field(i).value...

so then i assign this value and then i move this local ds back to
p_dsIO.namesValues

confusion much. so how would i access p_dsIO.namesValue.field(i).

value

directly???

i'm lost

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Vernon Hamberg <

vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Hi Jay

I think you do NOT want to set the OAR structure pointer to an

address of

something NOT in that structure - that's what this looks like.

So you need a variable BASED on the OAR structure pointer - put

the

character value in that variable, and it should all be fine.

Multiple levels of dereferencing pointers is where we are, right?

HTH
Vern


On 10/17/2017 1:03 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

so i'm assigning namesValuesDS.value = %addr(g_hostData(i)) but

it is

still
getting the
A character representation of a numeric value is in error.

And before it returns to the rpg caller, i even have a debugging

loop

where
i examine each namesValuesDS.value and they are indeed assigned

correctly

from g_hostData...

so where can this error be coming from?

also, another small side concern, what if i ever have column

definitions

greater than the 255 chars we defined g_hostData with?

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:56 PM, <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 10/17/2017

01:29:06

PM:

so since namesValuesDS.value is a pointer, i'd need

%addr(g_hostData(i))

to

assign the pointer of g_hostData(i) correct?

Seems logical.

but what if that g_hostData value should be returned as char or

numeric

depending on the column that namesValuesDS.value is

representing?

g_hostData is simply a char value.

To the caller, g_HostData is just storeage

(memory). If you

only
need to return a pointer for it then you don't need to worry

about the

fact that your program sees it as character storage. When you

pass a

pointer then it is IBM code that has to deal with the format.

Issues

will
only arise if the value is not in your character storage as

correct

hexadecimal format (packed, binary, or floating-point) for the

caller or

if you have to move the value from your storage to a numeric

field for

passing back the value. That is where and when the special

handling I

alluded to earlier would come into play.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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