RE: CL Problems

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have read the link you sent me but one thing doesn't make sense to me.
Does the OS and/or the command ignore the asterisk? 

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: John Taylor [mailto:john.taylor@telusplanet.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 5:38 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: CL Problems


Mike,

This is such a common question that one of us really should put it in the
FAQ. Here is one of many explanations from the archives:

http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/199809/msg01310.html


John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 16:15
Subject: CL Problems


> I have a RPG program that passes parameters to a CL program that retrieves
> some job attributes, then submits another CL to the jobq which will build
a
> PDF file and put it on the IFS. The reason we do this is so if the PDF
> creation crashes, it will not disrupt the job that called it. This CL is
> called at the end of the job (we are being overly paranoid because some of
> the reports do updates). My problem is this:
>
> Somehow between the RPG program and the last CL I get garbage in the field
> name causing the last CL to crash. I am filling these fields in the RPG
> program, but not completely (I might be using 20 bytes of the 50 byte
> length). I don't want to make this smaller because the CL's are designed
so
> many different reports can be turned into PDF files. I am wondering how
that
> garbage can get in there. The data appears to be fine when it gets sent to
> the first CL from the RPG program (thus why I posted here). :-) The only
> ones effected are the ones that are quite long and not being completely
> filled. OS version is V4R5.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Mike Wills
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