RE: SBMJOB ~ RQSDTA (Ken Slaugh)

Hi Martin,

It's not so much that you can only pass 32 character parms, but that the 
command analyzer ASSUMES a default size of 32 bytes for character parms.  If it 
sees NON-BLANK data in a parm, it will resize the storage for that parm to 
accomodate the additional data.  However, if there are trailing blanks, you get 
clobbered.  The analyzer determines the length of the parameter data by first 
trimming off trailing blanks.

The workaround is to declare your parm with one extra byte, and force a non 
blank character into the extra byte. 

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-297-2863 or ext. 1863



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Subject: RE: SBMJOB ~ RQSDTA (Ken Slaugh)



Hi Captain Jerry

One difference that I have encountered between these two statements

SBMJOB     JOB(WPC8060) RQSDTA('CALL WPC8060 ')

SBMJOB     CMD(CALL PGM(WPC8060)) JOB(WPC8060)

is that the second one is very limited in the length of parameters it can
pass (32 characters rings a bell) whereas the first one accepts much larger
ones. I think we hit a problem when passing email addresses  (circa 42
characters in length).

Regards

Martin Bath
Global IT Group
Invensys Controls 
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