RE: MCH3601 errors

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also if you're passing these with teh RQSDTA parm in a sbmjob, you
generally HAD to recieve numerics in a 15.5 field....regardless of how
they were passed...



On Thu, 24 May 2001, Fisher, Don wrote:

> You may remember my issue not too long ago with an RPGIV program failing on
> a file read even though the parameters all lined up.  When converted to RPG
> III, the program executed without an error.
> 
> As it turns out, there were calls to programs using externally defined data
> structures as parameters.  The length of these data structures was not
> explicitly defined in the calling program, but the called program expected
> the length to be 256.  When I explicitly defined the lengths of the data
> structures, I ceased receiving the MCH3601 message.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Donald R. Fisher, III
> Project Manager
> Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company
> (804) 784-7500 ext. 2124
> Don.Fisher@HeiligMeyers.com
> 
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> I've got a particularly perplexing problem with a MCH3601 exception.
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> I can't figure out where the parameter error is.  I've looked at everything
> near the failure
> point, both RPG and CL, and everything jives with the docs.
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