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OTOH, by passing it explicitly as RQSDTA() instead of CMD(), you can generally 
both preserve trailing blanks AND avoid the need for an appended extra 
character.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   6. RE: SBMJOB inserting nulls (Metz, Zak)
>
>Putting the * in 101 forces it to pass ALL 101 bytes, instead of
>truncating off trailing spaces and only passing the "real" data, which
>means you get the garbage in the rest of the variable. The key here is
>that the system is truncating trailing blanks when the variable is
>larger than 32 bytes. The * prevents that truncation.


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