Re: [Bulk] RPG ILE *VARSIZE issue? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: [Bulk] RPG ILE *VARSIZE issue?
From: Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 22:51:14 -0600
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Jon,

Why would opdesc slow the process down? All opdesc does, under the covers, is pass a structure containing the lengths of the parameters. The time this takes shouldn't be significant. Do you know something I don't?

Also, the original example that Brad Stone posted in this thread had a variable named 'inputSize' in the parameter list. Isn't that the size of the variable, exactly what you are suggesting?

On 2/13/2016 10:57 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

Instead of opdesc (which will slow the process down) you could always
pass the actual length as an additional parm.

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Re: [Bulk] RPG ILE *VARSIZE issue? , Jon Paris

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