RE: Max length of a VARYING field

From: Barbara Morris

It's already possible to pass a varying parameter by reference to a
procedure that wants a different length, but you have to specify
OPTIONS(*VARSIZE). You would usually use operational descriptors to get
the maximum size; you can use %LEN to get the current size.

I have no doubt that operational descriptors would work, Barbara. I assumed
that Scott didn't want to use them based on his statement, "Remember, I'm
talking about reference parameters. All that's passed from caller to callee
is a pointer. No size, data type, etc is passed."

If Scott were to use operational descriptors and maybe a based variable, I
think all of his issues would be solved without having to explicitly code an
index length.

Joe