RE: passing parms between Cobol/400 & ILE-RPG

[Dan <dbcerpg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm a bit confused.  How would this be any different than defining a
data structure in RPG and using that as the parameter?  I hardly ever
do that.

- Dan

--- "Stone, Joel" <StoneJ@GourmetAward.com> wrote:
> I would suggest that you could be asking for trouble by naming each
> parm
> field.
>
> For example, lets say this program is called in 50 pgms, and you
> decide in 6
> months that you want to add P1300-Start-Date as a parm.
>
> The way you have set this up, you would have to hand-modify 50 pgms
> plus the
> called pgm.
>
> If you change it to "CALL 'PD1300RG' USING 1300RG-PARMS and list
> P1300-Start-Date as an "05" field underneath an "01" level, then you
> would
> simply recompile the 50 programs.  You would not have to modify the
> 50
> programs!!
>
> That is a BIG maintenance issue, imo.
>
> If you were to leave a filler field to accomodate a few new fields,
> then you
> would not have to even re-compile the programs (except where the new
> field
> needs to be referenced).

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