Comments on: Passing Parameters to submitted job http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/passing-parameters-to-submitted-job/ Fri, 24 May 2013 17:13:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: permanentvacationman http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/passing-parameters-to-submitted-job/#comment-80019 permanentvacationman Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:59:52 +0000 #comment-80019 Thanks again Tom!

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/passing-parameters-to-submitted-job/#comment-80016 tomliotta Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:03:02 +0000 #comment-80016 Based on your answer, I think that I could put an “X” in the last position of the 2000 bytes and strip it off after the job starts and my entire 2000 bytes will still contain a right blank fill.

Consider putting your “X” (or “k” or whatever non-blank) in position 2001 instead. Your receiving program should never know it’s there since it will only look at the first 2k bytes anyway. Hmmm… this is just a single program — running interactive or batch. Still, it shouldn’t matter; you can use a 2k parm coming in, but copy it to a 2k+1 variable to send it out. Maybe. You know the source better than I do.

This is a ‘valid’ solution. You already understand why I didn’t list it.

Be careful to document the purpose of the extra ‘delimiter’ character.

Tom

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