RE: RE: SBMJOB is trimming the tailing blanks

It doesn't actually trim at the last non-blank. If you gave it all 510 
characters with blanks out to the end, it should work, if I remember this 
correctly. What the KB says is, if the parameter is longer than 32, the system 
does not pad out to the length of the parameter when coming from a command line 
or equivalent. So you get whatever is in memory beyond the last character you 
passed (even a blank). To verify this, you will need to view parameters in 
hexadecimal in STRDBG. To do this, on the debug command line type

eval &parm : x

Here is a simple sample to point this out:

pgm (&char20 &char32 &char99)
dcl &char20 *char 20         
dcl &char32 *char 32         
dcl &char99 *char 99         
endpgm                       

Save this as a CLLE source type and use option 14 to create - use DBGVIEW(*ALL) 
or your otherwise favorite setting. Then STRDBG and set a breakpoint on the 
ENDPGM.

HTH
Vern

-------------- Original message -------------- 

> Press send too quick. 
> 
> If the field is declared as 510 in length, the ending ' should always 
> end at 510 not the last non blank byte. The program did not ask the 
> system to trimr :). 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:43 AM 
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
> Subject: RE: RE: SBMJOB is trimming the tailing blanks 
> 
> Hhmmm. I don't think that is the problem. 
> 
> 1) Remember that in my CL program I declared the parm field as 510 in 
> length. 
> 2) Depending on condition, the last non blank byte in the above parm 
> field could be at say byte 410. 
> 3) When #2 happened and CL does the SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGMB(MYPARM)), the 
> actual command being subbmitted looks like this CALL PGMB('PARM 
> DATA..................... .... ....') ==> this ending ' 
> end at 410. 
> 
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