RE: Parameters

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Naegeler wrote:

>do you or (of course) anybody else know, why there' s a 
>problem by passing this long alpha-parm into batch. 
> SBMJOB     CMD(CALL PGM(NATEST) PARM(&CHAR)) JOBQ(PGMRTEST)

Guten Tag, Martin!

The problem is because the CL program calls SBMJOB and SBMJOB calls NATEST.
But SBMJOB has no declaration for the size or type of &CHAR, so it must
convert the data to a literal.  Now it passes that literal to NATEST, which
is a size mis-match because character literals are 32 bytes long.

Buck Calabro
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