Re: PCML Structure length

Thank Barbara, I'll give that a try.

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On 8/8/2022 5:51 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
> On 2022-08-05 12:20 p.m., Pete Helgren wrote:
>> Working with a PCML call that I *almost* have working....the issue 
>> seems to be that one of the parameters is the length of the structure 
>> which I am not sure how to calculate/get.  The API being called is:
>>
>> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=ssw_ibm_i_74/apis/qycdrnwc.htm 
>
> In this example of calling QSYRUSRI, they call getOutputSize() to get 
> the size of an output parameter.
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=ssw_ibm_i_74/rzahh/pcmldata.htm#pcmldata__pcmlqsyrusri 
>
>
> Assuming getOutputSize() only works with usage="output", maybe you 
> could define another dummy program with the struct defined with 
> usage="output", and get the size of that parameter.
>
> Something like this, a bit kludgy, but maybe it will work ...
>
>   <program name="rnwc0300Size">
>     <data name="rnwc" type="struct" struct="rnwc0300"
>           usage="output"/>
>   </program>
>
>   ...
>
>   pcml.setValue("qycdrnwc.reqdataLength",
>                 pcml.getOutputsize("rnwc0300Size.rnwc"));
>
>
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