Passing arguments to SOURCE via PANELS



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Passing arguments to SOURCE via PANELS

Postby Ramsee » Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:54 pm

Hi All,

Warm greetings!!

I am facing an error while passing Arguments from PANELS to SOURCE REXX CODE,that I need to pass three parameter from PANEL to SOURCE they are,

E-MAIL ID OF THE USER  ===>   abc@xyz.com                                               
                                                                             
COMPANY NAME             ===>   test test                                               
                                                                             
COMPANY NUMBER         ===>    123456                                             

CALL PGM:
CALL PGMNAME PNEMAIL PNCONAME PNCOMNUM

Argument in REXX SOURCE CODE
ARG mail_id company_name companynumber


Output in SCREEN using SAY command i printed the 3 ARG's:
mail_id :abc@xyz.com
company_name  : test
companynumber : test


ISSUE: here the COMPANY NUMBER is holding the value TEST (Because there was a space in between the COMPANYNAME variable, it is splitting the arguments into 'n' numbers due to 'n' number of spaces.

Validation in PANEL code:
VER(&PNEMAIL,NB) 
VER(&PNCONAME,NB)
VER(&PNCOMNUM,NUM)


Please suggest me how to resolve this issue.

Thanks,
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Re: Passing arguments to SOURCE via PANELS

Postby NicC » Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:06 pm

Do not include spaces in your arguments. You are using space to parse the argument string into its component parts.
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Re: Passing arguments to SOURCE via PANELS

Postby Ramsee » Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:10 pm

Hi NicC,

Yes you are correct, i used SPACE in the COMPANYNAME , but SPACE " " is also a valid value in the input that i enter, i need to pass " " (SPACES) to the program.

Could you please help me how to pass the SPACES into the correct parameter value.

Thanks a ton for the help and time.

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Re: Passing arguments to SOURCE via PANELS

Postby NicC » Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:23 pm

ARG is really a variation on PARSE. Your program receives ONE argument - how you code your ARG defines how you interpret that one argument. If you have spaces in your data then try separating the fields by commas and parse by those.
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Re: Passing arguments to SOURCE via PANELS

Postby enrico-sorichetti » Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:11 pm

no need to parse anything

after a DISPLAY PANEL

ISPF will create the appropriate REXX variables corresponding/with the same name
of the panel fields
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Re: Passing arguments to SOURCE via PANELS

Postby NicC » Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:02 pm

Depends on the process: my understanding was that another rexx program was being called after getting the values from the panel. Even if this were the case there would be no need to pass arguments - just VPUT the variables in the first program and VGET them in the next.
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Re: Passing arguments to SOURCE via PANELS

Postby Pedro » Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:28 pm

The default is for parse to separate at blanks. Since a blank is valid character in your fields, you need to use a different character.

Introduce a special character when you call the rexx program.
CALL PGMNAME PNEMAIL '06'x  PNCONAME '06'x PNCOMNUM

Within the rexx program, parse for the special character.
parse arg  mail_id  '06'x company_name  '06'x companynumber
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