Re: Opdesc question

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:32:58 -0700
>From: "David Morris" <dmorris@plumcreek.com>
>
>A couple of years ago, I created some procedures that used operational
>descriptors to retrieve the length of *VARSIZE parameters. These
parameters
>were also defined as CONST.  Since VARYING length strings became
available,
>I have been using VARYING in most cases. I also found out that passing a
>varying field to a procedure that received a *VARSIZE CONST parameter
worked
>just fine... at least I thought it was OK.  I had a program receive an
error
>that has not been modified for some time.  The error was caused because
the
>operational descriptor for the field said the length received was 32768,
>where the length of the varying string passed was 1.
>...

David, APAR SA86199 relates to CONST varying length parameters.  It will
have
PTFs for V4R4 and V4R2.  Any operational descriptor info for varying length
parameters that appears to be correct IS correct - some types of parameters
don't have a problem.

Barbara Morris


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