Re: Retrieving integer parameter after JT400 ProgramCall?

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Kimmel wrote:
> I've been using ProgramCall successfully for years. You have to get the
> datatypes right and do the conversions, but once you've got one, all the
> rest come pretty easily. And I have some with lots and lots of
> parameters going both directions with lots of data types. What do think
> is the advantage of PCML? Don't you have to do basically the same thing
> in a different format? 

1. It's a lot easier to handle data structures in PCML (IMO) ... especially considering you are restricted to 16 parameters in total on a program call from JT400.  
2. If I need to change the structure of the parameters, I don't have to touch the actual code ... just the external representation.
3. PCML is (again, IMO) a much straight forward way of representing the parameter structure of a program call than coding the parameters directly in the java code.

I consider PCML to be very similar to prototypes and external data structures.

david