Also, please supply (1) a little more code and (2) the command used to compile the validity checker. Other questions might follow based on those answers.

Tom

Thanks for looking into this.

I have been checking the length the same way you mentioned… may be I got it wrong so I’m pasting the code below. Please take a look.

This is the the parameter as defined in the command source:
PARM KWD(USER1) TYPE(*NAME) LEN(10) +
MIN(1) MAX(3) CHOICE(’Name’) PROMPT(’User +
Profile(s)’)

This is the piece from the validity checker:
CHGVAR VAR(&USER#) VALUE(%BINARY(&USER1 1 2))

Strangely enough, even if I do not enter more than 1 value in the list, it still returns the number as 3 based on my previous call.