Re: VARLEN question

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)



In the programme I set this varying length field as follows





D i E DS EXTNAME(Fccin1 ) qualified

D ljZVarLen 5I 0 OverLay(IN1ZPARVAR : 1)

D ljZVarChr 8998 OverLay(IN1ZPARVAR : 3)

// Data

i.ljzvarchr = %trim(zpmess) ;

// Length

i.ljzvarlen = %len(%trim(zpmess)) ;





In ZPMESS I have 'TEST MESSAGE'



Aftre the file write I have



TEST MESSAGE ----

ECEE4DCEECCC444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444000

3523045221750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000



Why do I have 5O+ blanks between the end of the data and the first null
(in yellow)





Thanks in advance







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