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Re: RFE Vote time - compile-time expression in data typing

On 23-Jun-2015 12:40 -0600, Kurt Anderson wrote:
I entered a PMR, but am told my issue is as-designed so an RFE is
needed to change how it works.

Here is the problem. In the example below, blahVarying shows up in
the outline as Unknown(0). I supplied 'blah' as its own definition,
but it could come from a file, copybook, or wherever.

dcl-s blah char( 10 );
dcl-s blahVarying varChar( %len( blah ) );

[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=73185]


I can not access the content at the link [despite being logged in to ibm.com], but the %size() should be used in that context instead of the %len().?


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