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  3. December 2011

Re: Is hex 00000 in a string field equal to null?

I think you mean 32-character, and the only problem there is that if you call a program with parms longer than 32 characters from a command line and don't pass all the data, the part after 32 characters gets random garbage (not blanks). Typically this doesn't affect anyone, but it does cause a problem when you try to format a string to call either from QCMDEXC or from a SBMJOB.

Joe

Thanks! The bug showed up again today, so I tried the replace. It worked
perfectly! Now to figure out the damn bug. I am sure it has to do with the
36 character limit on RPG parameters. I'll probably remove the RPG from the
picture to see if that resolves it.



On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc.<
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

no need to go through all those gyrations, a single built-in will do the
job

REPLACE(field, x'00', ' ')

will do the trick.



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