Re: API parameter lengths

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

does it matter that there is no quote after XYZ in your second example, or
is that just a typo?

----- Original Message -----
From: <Gene_Gaunt@reviewworks.com>
To: <MI400@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: API parameter lengths


>
> Here's a case where the command line fails to pad blanks to 32 bytes.  I
> call the QSYRGFN API on V4R4 like this from the command line to register a
> 30-character function named XYZ:
>
> CALL QSYRGFN PARM('XYZ'
> X'00000002000000100000000100000001F3404040000000100000000200000001F1404040'
> X'00000000')
>
> This creates a function named 'XYZ' + X'00' + 26 blanks.  Huh?  Why did the
> command line insert a trailing null after 'Z'?  Is this a feature?  Now I
> call the QSYRGFN API like this from the command line and explicitly pad the
> first parameter to 32 blanks:
>
> CALL QSYRGFN PARM('XYZ                             '
> X'00000002000000100000000100000001F3404040000000100000000200000001F1404040'
> X'00000000')
>
> This creates a function named 'XYZ' + 27 blanks, as I expected.  Somehow
> the QSYRGFN API can determine whether the command line caller typed a
> 3-character string or a 32-character string in parameter one.  Can an MI
> program determine this information, too?
>
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