RE: Recursive CL - Data decimal error

[Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Were all the parms in the program being submitted defined as 15,5?  When you
do a SBMJOB or a CALL from the command line the system defaults numerics as
15,5.  I suspect this is the cause of your problem.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fran Denoncourt [mailto:BobNFran@escapees.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:22 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Recursive CL - Data decimal error
>
>
> Made an attempt at going the data area route but it failed,
> also. So, I
> ended up changing the RPGLE / CL to pass/receive  a character field
> instead. But, still wanted to know why this happened.
> Thanks
> At 12:11 PM 10/23/2001 -0400, you wrote:
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> >Fran, I don't know the answer for the truncation, but I
> think you might be
> >able to push the value to a dataarea if that is the the only issue?
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Fran Denoncourt [mailto:BobNFran@escapees.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:40 AM
> >To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> >Subject: Recursive CL - Data decimal error
> >
> >
> >Is there a known bug with calling a CL recursively passing
> decimal data as
> >a parameter to the CL?
> >I don't seem to have any problems with a character field.
> But if I pass
> >numeric and logical, part of the data seems to get truncated when the
> >second pass is run.
> >The first pass checks to see if it is an interactive job. If
> so, it submits
> >itself passing the two input parameters from an RPGLE
> program: numeric
> >(*DEC 9/0) and and indicator (*LGL). The error occurs when I
> use a CHGVAR
> >command with the numeric field.
> >If I remove the SBMJOB code and let the execution drop through to the
> >CHGVAR, no problem.
> >Thanks,
> >Fran Denoncourt
> >
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