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  3. January 2005

Re: AW: Service Program Argument Optimization

HauserSSS wrote:
> 
> Hi Barbara,
> 
> does adding Options(*Varsize) to a CONST or VALUE parameter have any effect?
> I mean are only the used bytes copied or is always the complete field length
> copied?
> 

Good point for CONST. (*VARSIZE isn't supported for VALUE.)  With
*VARSIZE, only the used bytes are copied, or sometimes the actual. 
Don't forget to consider the cost of getting the actual length of the
parameter within the procedure.

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