Re: CL Parameter ends up fulla crud.

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/01/2006, at 9:29 AM, Scott A Schollenberger wrote:

> My recollection is that CLP programs padded all character parameters 
> out to
> 32 characters before passing them.  The garbage problem would come up 
> once
> the paramter was 32 characters in OPM CL.

Only when called via the command parser (e.g., command line, SBMJOB, 
system(), QCMDEXC, etc.). When called from another program it is the 
responsibility of the caller to pass the correct data types and length.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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