RE: Varable initialized with more data then defined for

This might be easier to answer if we could see the code causing the issue.
Just seeing the error isn't showing us what is happening. To run SNDDST
you may be calling qcmdexc, It requires a length to get passed in. If the
length is being retrieved from the original variable and not the 5000 char
one you could have a longer length value. I don't think that is the issue,
but it is an example.




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Date:
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RE: Varable initialized with more data then defined for
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The question is, if you define &M to be 5000, how can it contain 5001
bytes of data when passed.

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On Behalf Of Bruce Vining
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:37 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Varable initialized with more data then defined for

I interpret the error as saying the SNDDST command, being passed in the
CMD parameter of the SWPUSRPRF command, is exceeding 5000 bytes rather
than just &M.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:36 AM, 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.

Thank You
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