RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Making changes to an RPG program -- RPG400-L

I am a little late to the conversation but once you are creating a function,
why not convert the date into a date variable. There are lots of advantages
to the date field and you can have another sub procedure/function to convert
back to a numeric field when needed.

Darryl Freinkel
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Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 10:57 AM
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Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Making changes to an RPG program

Thanks for the reply Jon

That's the way I was going to go - but I was hoping/thinking that there
would be something different/easier/etc.

I DO like the idea of creating the function

Alan Shore
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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon
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Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 10:44 AM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Making changes to an RPG program

Not a straight translate due to the requirement to return the value to
DUEDAT. An exact match to functionality would appear to be:

dcl-pr SWAP ExtPgm();
*n Packed(8);
end-pr;

SWAPDT = DUEDAT;

SWAP(SWAPDT);

DUEDAT = SWAPDT;

Personally I'd be inclined to look at SWAP and consider rewriting it as a
function that returns the required value. The proto etc. would be something
like:

dcl-pr SWAP Packed(8);
*n Packed(8);
end-pr;

DueDat = SWAP(DueDat);

On Oct 24, 2019, at 3:16 PM, Alan Shore via RPG400-L

<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi everyone
Before I forget - we are on V7r3

I have been given the task to make changes to an RPG program - that
was last changed in November 2011

Whenever I need to make a change to an RPG program, my first step is
to convert the RPG source to RPGLE source by using the command
CVTRPGSRC

Having said that, its been many moons since I last converted an RPG to
RPGLE Until now

The reason I have created this e-mail, is that I have decided to try
and take it one step further (be careful what you wish for) and see
what it would take to convert to free Its laborious We are having RDi
installed, and I am one of the lucky early ones - so its been fun
learning about RDi as well

Here is my question

Calling external programs

The code I have is
SWAP C CALL 'SWAP'
SWAP C DUEDAT PARM DUEDAT SWAPDT

Its been a while since I saw this type of code, but I believe the
translation is Call program SWAP using the parameter SWAPDT, but
populating SWAPDT from the field DUEDAT and inserting the answer back
into DUEDAT when returning from the called program SWAP

The field SWAPDT is defined as
dcl-s Swapdt packed(8:0) inz(0);
The field DUEDAT is defined
dcl-ds Duedtds;
Duedat zoned(6:0);
Oiduem zoned(2:0) Pos(1);
Oidued zoned(2:0) Pos(3);
Oiduey zoned(2:0) Pos(5);
end-ds;

How would the call translate into free?
Hope this makes sense
As always - all responses gratefully accepted Alan Shore E-mail :
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