On Tuesday, 11/07/2006 at 03:29 CET, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you're correct; it's a matter of style. Probably the programmer is > abiding by some sort of house rule that says if you can't rely upon the > referenced variables to provide the correct length then use the length > attribute in order to show the relationship between the length of the > referenced variable and the desired length by using a plus or a minus and a > constant. Where you have an MVC and a literal, it looks a bit stupid but a > house rule is a house rule. It's my opinion that a simple number suffices > because the length of the literal is obviously the length that has to be > used and it's right there in front of you.
Best practice: MVC TARGET(6),=XL6'402021212121' Note the length modifer. This surfaces both the exact length of the source and the exact length of the move. People who omit the length modifer are sentenced to the 9th level of hell for all eternity. Or even longer. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
