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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Al Barsa wrote:

You can always make a command parameter bigger.

The problem is what do you do with fields for system output files.  The
output file for DSPOBJD has three fields, ODCPVR, ODCVRM and ODPVRM which
are all six bytes long.  If you change the length of these fields, this
will cause logic in programs to break.

And Vern wrote:

The SYSLVL parameter of RTVOBJD takes a 9-character variable. The format is
VnnRnnMnn. But, as Al says, there are lots of places that use 6-character
format - not the least being all the TGTRLS parameters, which are now
defined as *CHAR-8.

Why use fixed lengths at all? Make the VRM be a "string" that can be any length. Heck, in linux you can even add your own custom tag to the "VRM" (i.e. something like 2.6.9-we_did_this) and all the tools handle it just fine. Why couldn't the iSeries do something similar?


James Rich

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