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> Based on my last comment, has anybody else run into problems with mixing > fixed length character variables and VARYING when sending parms to a sub > proc? Or problems when using VARYING variables with C API's? There are no C APIs that use VARYING! VARYING isn't even available to C programmers, unless they wanted to implement it manually with a data structure or something like that. Therefore, never pass VARYING to a function from the ILE C runtime. Use options(*string) instead. I know that you define a VARYING field by putting a "A" in col 40 of your D-spec. However, despite this, it's a completely different data type than your typical fixed-length alphanumeric field. Just as packed and zoned aren't the same, varying is also different from alphanumeric. You can't just combine the two! (unless of course you're passing a parameter by CONST or VALUE, and then -- just like numeric fields -- the system will do conversions for you.)
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