Re: QUSRSPLA and operating system upgrade

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx]

Which programming language? In C/C++, declare a struct
with the one from the QSYSINC as the first element, than
add the variable-length items at the end. This is
instead of completely copying the includes/copy members
into your code and having to do it again after an
upgrade. Of course, the analogous use of /COPY may not
work in RPG(LE), since you can't use a data type the
same way, right? Or has this changed?

In C/C++

struct
{
     IBM_struct   element1;
     datatype     your_element1;
     ..
     ..
} struct_name;

I think.
> Does anyone have a good example of using QUSRSPLA - one that works even
> after OS upgrades.  We just upgraded to V5R1 and have a few programs that
> call QUSRSPLA and they bombed because the length of the variable being
> passed was not long enough now.  It was easy to fix them and the error
> message even told us what the new length should be but there should be a way
> to automatically determine the length needed and dynamically allocate the
> variable.  I'm not seeing anything in the manuals that helps.
> Suggestions/examples?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave