Re: Varable initialized with more data then defined for

Hi Paul -

On Thu, 2 May 2013 09:36:03 -0400, "Steinmetz, Paul"
<PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We ran into an issue where a variable, defined as *CHAR with a length of 5000, but either initialized or data moved to this field exceeded 5000 characters, caused a subsequent command to fail because of length limitation issue, CPD0183. How can this happen? Is this a bug? How can a field have more data than it was defined for.
We saw the same results if the data was defined in an RPGLE program, passed it the CL.

DCL VAR(&M) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(5000)

SWPUSRPRF USRPRF(CPATEXT) CMD(SNDDST TYPE(*LMSG) +
TOINTNET((psteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx)) +
DSTD(TEST) LONGMSG(&M))

Message ID . . . . . . : CPD0183 Severity . . . . . . . : 30
Message type . . . . . : Diagnostic
Date sent . . . . . . : 05/02/13 Time sent . . . . . . : 09:22:03

Message . . . . : Embedded command SNDDST too long.
Cause . . . . . : The length specified for the embedded command exceeds the
defined length. Command length is 5001, but the maximum length for the
embedded command string is 5000.

The embedded command is not just what's in &M, it's the whole embedded
SNDDST command in the CMD parameter.

Ken
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