Re: SBMJOB is trimming the tailing blanks

[Ken Sims <mdrg5003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lim -

> - PGMA is a CL program.
> - In this program &MYVAR is declare as *char with length of 510
> - PGMA does SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGMB PARM(&MYVAR))
>
> When I look that the submitted job PGMB, the param is being truncate.
> No tailing blank.  Is that normal?

In additional to the normal rules for command line CALLs, if you are using 
SBMJOB you need to make sure that any character values longer than 32 bytes 
have a non-blank character at the end so that trailing blanks don't get 
trimmed off.

This non-blank end character doesn't have to be visible to the receiving 
program.  If you are using all 510 bytes, put them in the first 510 bytes 
of a 511 byte field.  Put a non-blank character into the 511th byte.  Use 
the 511 byte field on the SBMJOB.  You don't need to change the batch 
program at all.

There is absolutely no problem with using CALL in the CMD parameter of 
SBMJOB as long as you follow a few simple rules.

Ken
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