mcinerneyed@russellcorp.com (Ed) wrote in message news:<59267278.0307221154.14155d09@posting.google.com>...
> Computer gods,
>
> My direct problem is that I'm getting this error message back from my
> remoting client, indicating the an error on the remoting server:
>
> -----
> System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: Server encountered an
> internal error. For more information, turn on customErrors in the
> server's .config file.
>
> Server stack trace:
>
> Exception rethrown at [0]:
> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage
> reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData&
> msgData, Int32 type)
> at DummyLibrary.Dummy.BOMXplosionAll(String& sRetCode, Int32&
> lSQLCode, String& sRetMsg, String& sGarStyle, String& sGarColor,
> String& sGarSize, Double& dblGarLbs, Array& aFILLER) in
> c:\work\testapps\dotnet\edtestremoting\c#-http\debugbomxplosion\dummylibrary\dumdum.cs:line
> 237
> at EdTestRemotingClient.frmMain.btnBOMXplosionALLViaRemoting_Click(Object
> sender, EventArgs e) in
> c:\work\testapps\dotnet\edtestremoting\c#-http\debugbomxplosion\edtestremotingclient\frmmain.cs:line
> 281
> at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
> at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
> at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
> at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons
> button, Int32 clicks)
> at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
> at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
> at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
> at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
> at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
> at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32
> msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
>
> -----
>
> NOTE: This only happens on this specific method call...other remoting
> calls work OK.
>
> I'll try to keep this brief, but there's some necessary background to
> my problem:
> I'm using a COMTI component built and run on Host Integration Server
> 2000 to execute a COBOL program via CICS transaction.
> The COBOL program has nested "Occurs" statements:
>
> ...
> 006310 05 FILLER OCCURS 10 TIMES.
> 006320 07 COM-RET-FIN-STYLE PIC X(7).
> 006330 07 COM-RET-FIN-COLOR PIC X(3).
> 006340 07 COM-RET-FIN-SIZE PIC X(2).
> 006350 07 COM-RET-FIN-LBS PIC 9(11)V9999 COMP-3.
> 006360 07 COM-RET-FIN-POU PIC X(3).
> 006370 07 COM-RET-GRE-CODE PIC X(15).
> 006380 07 COM-RET-GRE-LBS PIC 9(11)V9999 COMP-3.
> 006390 07 FILLER OCCURS 20 TIMES.
> 006400 09 COM-RET-YARN-CODE PIC X(15).
> 006410 09 COM-RET-YARN-LBS PIC 9(11)V9999 COMP-3.
> ...
>
> In my COMTI component, I've selected to have the data from these
> nested "Occurs" statements returned to me as "User-Defined
> Types"...essentially,
> they are returned as an array of structures with last item in the 1st
> structure being a nested array of the inner structure.
>
> I am instantiating and executing this COMTI component on the HIS
> server through a C# .NET remoting server that I call from my local PC
> and a
> C# .NET remoting client. I am able to interrogate the resulting nested
> array of structures on the server (using console.writelines and
> itterating through the array). So, the problem is not connectivity
> related. The problem (see the error message above) comes when I try
> to pass back the array of structures to the remoting client as an
> "out" parameter.
>
> Again, the remoting configuration/functionality itself seems to work
> OK, as I can execute other remote methods OK.
> So, does anyone have an idea as to why this happens?
>
> I've tried declaring the method several different ways (returning the
> array as a system.array and as an array of the specific structure
> -see the last out param)...
>
> public string BOMXplosionAll(out string sRetCode, out Int32
> lSQLCode, out string sRetMsg, out string sGarStyle,
> out string sGarColor, out string sGarSize, out Double dblGarLbs,
> out Array aFILLER)
>
> public string BOMXplosionAll2(out string sRetCode, out Int32
> lSQLCode, out string sRetMsg, out string sGarStyle,
> out string sGarColor, out string sGarSize, out Double dblGarLbs,
> out BOMXplosionAA.FILLER[] aReturnFILLER)
>
> and they both get the same error message. If I do not pass back an
> array (remove it from the out param), it works. So, then I tried just
> creating a simple test method that returned an array...
> public string Test(out string[] aTest)
> and that DID work, so I don't think it's a problem with returning
> arrays.
>
> Any and All help is appreciated!
>
> Thank you,
>