RE: RE: RE: SBMJOB is trimming the tailing blanks

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, a nice set of examples would be helpful. I'll try what you 
suggest about variables, too.

Of course, the real answer is to create a command, right?

If you put up an FAQ and my samples would be useful, feel free or let me know.

;-)

At 05:13 PM 11/16/2005, you wrote:

> midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >   4. RE: RE: SBMJOB is trimming the tailing blanks (Vernon Hamberg)
> >
> >OK, Tom. help me here - I created a CL with a
> >50-character variable. Then I used the following to submit it:
> >
> >SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(VHAMBERGO/TEST) PARM('36
> >characters45678901234567890123456    '))
>
> Vern:
>
> Now try all of these again EXCEPT use variables rather than quoted strings.
>
> <guesswork>
> By using variables, you force a kind of expression evaluation. When 
> you simply use explicitly quoted strings, I imagine the quote marks 
> are used directly as markers. However, variables have no explicit quotes.
>
> Quotes still must be added by internal SBMJOB processing in its CPP 
> under many circumstances, though, for example when the variable 
> value has embedded spaces. I've never looked to see if quotes are 
> _always_ added, and embedded quotes in variable values would complicate it all.
>
> The trouble seems only when the command analyzer must make 
> assumptions about the formatting of the request message. If you 
> remove ambiguity, things work _fairly_ well. Unfortunately, that's 
> when the biggest value of the CMD() parm starts disappearing.
>
> In the cases where you DCL'd a *CHAR(50) and passed a quoted 
> *CHAR(40) with trailing blanks, the example with garbage is pretty 
> well understood I think.
>
> The single _extra_ blank that kept appearing...??? Well, somebody 
> with far more knowledge than I have would need to explain. I'm going 
> almost totally from guesswork out of experience.
> </guesswork>
>
> Maybe eventually we'll work out a nice, neat tutorial (FAQ) that 
> clearly describes all relevant behavior.
>
> Tom Liotta
>
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