RE: CLP pgm with 2 paramters intermittently getting garbage when called from AJS -- MIDRANGE-L

I had to laugh at this discussion. Just this morning I got bit by the 32 character bug when testing something from a command line. Once I dumped the CL, the problem/resolution pretty much jumped off the screen. Passed 33 chars to a 35 long parm and ended up with two nulls that some vendor software did not like.

It's been years since I ran across this but funny that, after resolving my issue, I logon and see this whole thread.

Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 17:01:54 -0400
From: mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: CLP pgm with 2 paramters intermittently getting garbage when called from AJS

Paul:

Count the characters between the single-quotes.

You did not provide enough characters for the size of the parameters you
stated was defined in your CL program. =-O

It should look like:

CALL PGM(XCAPXCMD) PARM('10.5.173.150 ' 'sudo /sbin/service
jboss-as start ')

Or, as Rob suggested, create a command, so then you can just specify
something like this:

XCAPXCMD SYSTEM('10.5.173.150') CMD('sudo /sbin/service jboss-as
start')

and the command processing will take care of ensuring the correct
number of characters are actually passed to your program.

HTH,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 4/9/2014 4:33 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

Mark,

From any job in AJS

If I make the lengths match and/or make it a CMD, should resolve the issue.

Seq Command
570 CALL PGM(ICAPICMD) PARM('10.5.173.150' 'sudo /sbin/service jboss-as...

Program . . . . . . . . . . . . > ICAPICMD Name
Library . . . . . . . . . . . *LIBL Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . > '10.5.173.150'

+ for more values > 'sudo /sbin/service jboss-as start'

Thanks
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S Waterbury
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 4:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: CLP pgm with 2 paramters intermittently getting garbage when called from AJS

Paul:

Show us the line of code that invokes this ... e.g. as defined to the "advanced job scheduler") ... then perhaps we can help?

All the best,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 4/9/2014 3:48 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

I have a CLP program that I call from AJS (Advanced Job Scheduler)
Intermittently, the 2nd parameter is getting garbage characters at the end, shown via dump of CLP pgm.
In the CLP program, parm 1 length defined as 15, parm 2 length defined as 41.
The lengths being passed from AJS are less, 12 and 33.

Program . . . . . . . . . . . . > ICAPICMD Name
Library . . . . . . . . . . . *LIBL Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . > '10.5.173.152'

+ for more values > 'sudo /sbin/service jboss-as start'

From the CLP dump

&CMD *CHAR 41 'sudo /sbin/service jboss-as start E seque'

The "E seque" is the garbage, causing the CLP to fail.

Is this an AJS parameter issue?

Thank You
_____
Paul Steinmetz
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