Re: Calling a CLLE program from the command line with parms

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

The system has no way of knowing how big the parm is defined in the CL.
 That's the job of the *CMD object.

But default, character parms are passed as char(32) unless the value has
more than 32 characters; in which case the parm is passed at it's actual
size.

However, trailing blanks are trimmed.

If you wanted to pass 'HI' as a char(1024), you'd need to pass: HI followed
by 1022 blanks followed by some non-blank character, for a total of 1025
characters.  The trailing non-blank character will never be seen by your
program.

Alternatively, the the "best" solution in IMHO is to define a *CMD front
end to your program.

HTH,
Charles


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Darryl Freinkel <
dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have called many programs for years without fail but today it failed.
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> I am calling a CLLE program with 1 parm that is CHAR(1024) from the command
> line.
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> Problem:
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> The CLLE program receives the call using the parms by reference and not
> value. As a result, the program gets whatever is in the reference area of
> memory. I cannot determine how to make the call by value. It was my
> understanding that any call from the command line was automagically a call
> by value.
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> H E L P.
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> TIA
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> Darryl Freinkel | Assignment 400 Group, Inc.
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