RE: Varying Length Parameters on Procedures

[Kirk.Palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (by way of David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>)]

Here is another case of someone losing their mind.

I caused the problem when I created a prototype in the development library
where I changed the parameters from passed by VALUE to CONST.  This caused
the service program in production to receive garbage in the parameter,
because the development prototype didn't match the production service
program.

Once we moved a program into production, the prototype in production
matched the service program in production, and the mixed case procedure
worked correctly.

Thanks for your help anyway,
Kirk

Bob Cozzi wrote:

I'm guessing it's a PTF issue, but I usually do this:

       C                   IF        piString = '' or %Len(piString)=0

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 > Subject: Varying Length Parameters on Procedures
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 >
 > I have created a service program to handle some of my string handling
 > functions:  Lower case, upper case, mixed case ...
 >
 > The service program used to run as expected when we were on
 > V4R4.  Since we upgraded to V4R5 it is sometimes aborting.
 >  .......