you could possibly use alternate tabbing (note the exclamation point) in your skeleton:
)TBA 49 //STEP1 EXEC PGM=MYPROG,REGION=4M,PARM='&ZUSER!' Thanks, Frank Merlenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 04/30/2008 11:54:37 AM: > Anyone, > > I'm working with a skeleton that generates an EXEC statement that looks like > this: > > //STEP1 EXEC PGM=MYPROG,REGION=4M,PARM='&ZUSER' > > I wish to pass the value in ZUSER to MYPROG, but I see that if the TSO userid > is < 8 characters long, the trailing blanks from the ZUSER variable are > truncated, and are not being passed to my assembler application. I.e., if the > userid is "USER1", I get a 5-byte parm string instead of an 8-byte > parm string > padded with blanks (or nulls, or anything). > > Is there a way to prevent the truncation, so that my application always > receives a full eight-byte value, preferably blank-padded? > > Thank you! > > David > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
