On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:47:06 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >I considered the effect of trailing blanks and had my colleague check for >nulls or blanks in ISPF Option 0. > >General > Input field pad . . N > Command delimiter . ; > >Even after changing from blank to nlll, his SDSF fill character appeared to be >blank. > Does N mean NULLS ALL or NULLS STD?
That feels like a half-hearted implementation of NULLS. Does INSERT work? If so, then some downstream component assumes, "Oh, the user entered fewer characters than I expect. I'll just fill the rest with blanks." Lazier than passing a length descriptor. A null-terminated string would be a benign (in this case) alternative. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
