PARMS and SBMJOB

Someone wrote:

>hi buck,

>thanks for your detailed explanations.
>do you or (of course) anybody else know, why there' s a problem by passing
>this long alpha-parm into batch. let's have a look at a little example: i
>just took your pgm and changed the call pgm into a sbmjob:
>code snap: cl/rpg

try this
change the CL parm to be an extra byte longer
and put a non-blank into the last byte

> PGM
> DCL        VAR(&CHAR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(257) VALUE('A')

chgvar  %sst(&char 257 1) 'x'

> SBMJOB     CMD(CALL PGM(NATEST) PARM(&CHAR)) 
> JOBQ(PGMRTEST)
> ENDPGM
>
>H DEBUG
>D XPARM            S            256A
>C                 *ENTRY        PLIST
>C                   PARM                             XPARM
>C                   DUMP
>C                   SETON     LR

Frank Kolmann


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