CL Problems

I have a RPG program that passes parameters to a CL program that retrieves
some job attributes, then submits another CL to the jobq which will build a
PDF file and put it on the IFS. The reason we do this is so if the PDF
creation crashes, it will not disrupt the job that called it. This CL is
called at the end of the job (we are being overly paranoid because some of
the reports do updates). My problem is this:

Somehow between the RPG program and the last CL I get garbage in the field
name causing the last CL to crash. I am filling these fields in the RPG
program, but not completely (I might be using 20 bytes of the 50 byte
length). I don't want to make this smaller because the CL's are designed so
many different reports can be turned into PDF files. I am wondering how that
garbage can get in there. The data appears to be fine when it gets sent to
the first CL from the RPG program (thus why I posted here). :-) The only
ones effected are the ones that are quite long and not being completely
filled. OS version is V4R5.

Thanks for any help.

Mike Wills
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