Odd problem with SBMJOB from CLLE pgm

I have a CLLE program that has a variable of 150 char.
This is passed to / from an RPGLE program that it calls.
The program then passes this on a SBMJOB command to a batch program.
I verified that the variable *did* have the full length allocated, with blanks 
at the end.
I know that if I use a constant, and the length of the parm expected is > 32 I 
need to fill the rest with blanks, but using a CL Variable declared with the 
correct length, the SBMJOB command truncates the value by trimming trailing 
blanks when passing it to the batch. I determined this by checking the job log 
for the batch job to see the values being passed.
I have a work around for this by creating another variable with 151 bytes and 
placing an "*" in pos 151, then using that on the SBMJOB.
Is this normal?

Thanks,
 
Jeff Young 
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Dynax Solutions, Inc.
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