Use new RPG BiFs to see if input parameter was passed Simon Hutchinson

​I cannot remember how long ago it was when IBM introduced the %PARMS RPG Built in Function, BiF, that would return the number of parameters were passed to the program. This has been “refined” in IBM i 7.5 TR2 and 7.2 TR8 with two new BiFs:

%PASSED:  Returns logical true if the parameter was passed
%OMITTED:  Returns logical true if the parameter was omitted

To show how these BiFs work I created a procedure, that contains the new, and a RPG program to call the procedure.
Let me start showing by showing the procedure, Procedure:
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