Re: Passing unwanted parameters

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/01/2009, at 9:17 AM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

> My puzzlement is that I don't know where the EXTRAPARM data area is  
> being
> created. I assumed it was in the initialization (effectively in the  
> *INZSR),
> but when I created an RPG/400 program and compiled it with GENOPT 
> (*LIST), I
> couldn't see where the data area is either created or retrieved.  
> Mind you,
> things may have changed between RPG/400 and RPGLE (and indeed, my  
> MI may be
> a little rusty), but I'm damned if I can see where the program  
> creates the
> data area. Maybe the RPG runtime creates it...


My guess is the RPG run-time does it. You should see a call to  
QRGXIOU in both the program INIT section and program TERMINATION  
section. This is responsible for fetching and updated the data area  
content. It seems reasonable to presume that it also creates the data  
area in QTEMP.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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