Re: SMBJOB size limitation - is there a workaround?

Rob Berendt wrote on 23/10/2006 01:51:22 PM:

Something weird for sure.  When I hit F1 on SBMJOB, while in the CMD 

field 

I see
command-string
Specify the command that is run in the batch job.  The command cannot be 

longer than 20,000 characters.

I see the same thing, V5R3.

But I am at V5R4.  Your help different?

How big are the fields defined on:
1 - the program doing the SBMJOB

    dcl    var(&fileDir)   type(*CHAR) LEN(32000)
    dcl    var(&backupDir) type(*CHAR) LEN(32000)

-- I realize I'm also going to run into the 20,000 limit here, aside from 
the apparent 5000 limit on parameters.  I could go and redefine my 
parameters everywhere, but that's going to be a bit of a pain, which is 
why I asked in the first place.

2 - The QCMDSRC member?

DSM131:
CMD PROMPT('Start reefer data processing')

    PARM       KWD(POLLDIR) TYPE(*CHAR) len(32000) MIN(1) +
               PROMPT('Directory to poll')

    PARM       KWD(BACKDIR) TYPE(*CHAR) len(32000) MIN(1) +
               PROMPT('Dir to store finished files')

3 - The CPP called by the QCMDSRC member?

     D DSR131...
     D                 PI
     D   dirPath...
     D                            32000A
     D   backupDir...
     D                            32000A

If I do ?DSM131, everything is hunky-dory.  The problem only seems to come 
up when I use SBMJOB, but SBMJOB is the only way to submit something to 
batch that I know of....  I'm stumped!

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