Help - cannot call routine with SB.PROCESS from uniobjects

[slestak]

I am troubleshooting calling a USER-FORMS PACKSLIP from UniObjects for VB.  Got info from Kevin that PROGS PSI.LOAD.COMMON is the key.

Have not gotten it working yet, but will document the solution.

[precisonline]

The issue is that in an RPC call, you're authenticated into Unidata but not into SB+.  This is what the PSI.LOAD.COMMON is supposed to do; initialize common so that you can call SB.PROCESS(..) for an appropriate SB+ process from within the Unidata BASIC code.

In the BASIC code, you should be able to do this:

EXECUTE 'PSI.LOAD.COMMON -Uuser

...where user is an SB+ user ID.  (Prelude uses "CONT" for the continuous printer, not sure if there's anything special about that name.)  Once this execute returns, SB+ common should be initialized and you should be able to CALL SB.PROCESS('whatever') from your routine.