Re: VARLEN question

[Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, your 8998 field should be 9000 instead; the entire field in RPG/COBOL consumes 9002 bytes, not 9000.

Secondly, when you say you have this data, what is it that's telling you so?  Is this an SQL dump, a view from a HLL program, REXX, or something else?

"PAPWORTH  Paul" <Paul.PAPWORTH@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a file with a zone defined as    9000                
> VARLEN(100)
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> In the programme I set this varying length field as follows 
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>     D   i             E DS                  EXTNAME(Fccin1 ) qualified
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>     D   ljZVarLen                    5I 0 OverLay(IN1ZPARVAR  : 1)
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>     D   ljZVarChr                 8998    OverLay(IN1ZPARVAR  : 3)  
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>               // Data
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>          i.ljzvarchr = %trim(zpmess)       ;
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>     // Length
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>          i.ljzvarlen = %len(%trim(zpmess)) ;
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> In ZPMESS I have 'TEST MESSAGE' 
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> Aftre the file write I have 
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> TEST MESSAGE                                                      ----
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> ECEE4DCEECCC444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444000
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> 3523045221750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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> Why do I have 5O+ blanks between the end of the data and the first null
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> Thanks in advance 
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