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  3. November 2005

Re: SBMJOB is trimming the tailing blanks

Hi Lim -


- PGMA is a CL program.
- In this program &MYVAR is declare as *char with length of 510
- PGMA does SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGMB PARM(&MYVAR))

When I look that the submitted job PGMB, the param is being truncate.
No tailing blank.  Is that normal?
In additional to the normal rules for command line CALLs, if you are using SBMJOB you need to make sure that any character values longer than 32 bytes have a non-blank character at the end so that trailing blanks don't get trimmed off.
This non-blank end character doesn't have to be visible to the receiving program. If you are using all 510 bytes, put them in the first 510 bytes of a 511 byte field. Put a non-blank character into the 511th byte. Use the 511 byte field on the SBMJOB. You don't need to change the batch program at all.
There is absolutely no problem with using CALL in the CMD parameter of SBMJOB as long as you follow a few simple rules. 

Ken
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