RE: Passing Parms to an RPG Program

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I plead guilty as charged and ask for mercy!

Yes, I suggested the hex approach, but only for the right circumstances:

In a pinch, a one-timer deal, maybe a couple of times for testing purposes.
Only a programmer, never end-users.

As far as always defining numeric parameters as 15,5, I guess that was a
habit I never picked up.  ("Alright, new habit:  15,5 for parameters!")

- Dan Bale

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@halinfo.it]
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 7:56 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Passing Parms to an RPG Program

Am I the only one horrified by all the suggestions of passing numeric parms
as
hex etc. that have appeared in response to this question?

There is only one correct answer - any program called from the command line
should define numeric parms as 15,5 packed.  That is how the system passes
them!
While using hex may provide a quick hack for testing purposes it is open to
error since you always have to ensure that the field is padded to the full
length.  For example if the field is 5S 0 then anything passed that is other
than ten hex digits will be incorrect.

If 15,5 doesn't work well for the person who raised the question, then the
best
answer is probably to define a command to handle the interface when calling
from
the command line - after all - it is the "command line" <vbg>
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