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Hi Terry,
I'm not sure why you say "thanks for the explanation. However..." the
problem you're encountering was explained in my explanation, yet the
word "However" makes it sound like your findings disagree.
STRPCCMD is limited to 123 characters. Period.
"rundll32 url,FileProtocolHandler" is 32 characters long. It needs to
be followed by a space. So the max URL length would be 90 characters
(123 - 33).
"start" is 5 characters long. It also needs to be followed by a space.
So the max URL length (including carets and other escaping characters)
would be 117 characters long (123 - 6).
Thus, if you happen by have a URL that happens to be between 90 and 117
characters, and not much escaping has to be done, then using "start" may
be an attractive choice for you. However, I had no way of knowing that
your command string happened to fall into that 27 character range!!
My URL tend to either be short and simple, or tend to have the potential
of being much larger than 117. I haven't yet fallen into that range
between 90 & 117.
To handle strings longer than 90 (or 117), I found it useful to set up a
simple redirect program on my System i. In fact, I published the idea
and the code for it in the following article:
http://www.systeminetwork.com/article.cfm?id=55778
(This article requires a Pro membership in SystemiNetwork.com)
Without a membership, you can still grab the code from here:
http://www.pentontech.com/IBMContent/Documents/article/55778_385_OpenUrl.zip
Terry Anderson wrote:
Scott,
Thanks for the explanation. However, when I changed my command to:
CHGVAR VAR(&PCCOMMAND) VALUE('rundll32 +
url,FileProtocolHandler http://xx.xx.xxx.xx:+
8014/citcgidevp/GETDIV2?division=' *TCAT +
&DIVISION *TCAT '&qstrat_rfq=' *TCAT +
&QLMRFQ# *TCAT '&qstrat_rfqitem=' *TCAT +
&QLMITEM#)
I get the following error: Value 'rundll32 u' for PCCMD exceeds 123
characters.
I guess, in this instance, I'm stuck using the carat.
Terry Anderson
Programming Manager
Citation Corporation
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