RE: CLP pgm with 2 paramters intermittently getting garbage whencalled from AJS

As I recall, in '97, we had a 4-shelf book case stuffed with the white IBM
binders. I still have some of the binders (no content) - very heavy duty.


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John McKee
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 9:33 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: CLP pgm with 2 paramters intermittently getting garbage
whencalled from AJS

I wish I had known of these limits in 1997. No internet. I was writing a
CL that built a dynamic program call. Could not understand why the command
string was terminated with garbage. So, added code to set an end of command
marker and trim off everything else.

Didn't even have access to manuals.

John McKee


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Roger Harman
<roger_harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Well, true it's not a bug. "Working as designed". I should have
referred to it as an "issue" with my testing.

I knew right away what it was when I did a DMPCLPGM and saw the nulls.
But,
like I said, it's been YEARS since I ran into it and quite
coincidental to see this thread.

Had I just tested my program being called by the RPG as planned, it
would never have cropped up. My fault for testing the call from the
command line.



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Landess
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 4:03 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: CLP pgm with 2 paramters intermittently getting garbage
whencalled from AJS

Roger -
*not* a bug. This is expected behavior when you you pass a value
shorter than the defined parameter length [when the parameter is
defined as having length > 32].
- sjl


"Roger Harman" wrote in message
news:mailman.70.1397078240.2655.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx...

I had to laugh at this discussion. Just this morning I got bit by the
32 character >>> bug <<< when testing something from a command line.
Once I dumped the CL, the problem/resolution pretty much jumped off the

screen.

Passed 33 chars to a 35 long parm and ended up with two nulls that
some vendor software did not like.

It's been years since I ran across this but funny that, after
resolving my issue, I logon and see this whole thread.


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