Caveat: I get the daily digest so I haven't seen any of the hashing this topic
has received today. *grin*
I was mildly curious so checked and found that the sample SDSNSAMP(DSN8FPRC) is
the same for DB2 v7, v8, & v9. (We don't have v10 yet.) (ok, with v9 they've
included Amode 31 & Rmode Any statements.)
For those that haven't looked, the first lines of the member follow. It
appears that &SYSPARM is to be the Field Procedure/CSECT name and, according to
Phil's experience, is expected to be a specific length. Only know 'nuff HLASM
to shoot my feet but can &SYSPARM be padded when specified ie. SYSPARM('123
')? (I'm presuming John did a quick & dirty assemble without providing a
value.)
&SYSPARM TITLE 'SAMPLE FIELD PROCEDURE'
&SYSPARM AMODE 31 ADDRESS IN 31 BITS
&SYSPARM RMODE ANY RESIDE ANYWHERE
&SYSPARM START 0
I wonder if Phil's the first person in all these years to attempt a DB2 Field
Procedure let alone with a name of less than six characters.
ps. I note this text from my Google search, "DB2 Field Procedures (FieldProcs)
were introduced in IBM i version 7.1 primarily to help simplify field
encryption projects." so maybe Phil *is* the 1st on z/OS.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: February 27, 2013 13:18
Subject: Re: SAVE macro
Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>Which leads me to wonder, after reading all subsequent replies, what was the
>content of &SYSPARM? Was it empty (spaces) or not?
It contained six non-blank characters. The original value before I tinkered was
seven bytes. Ah, and if I put a seventh in, it works. So the sample wasn't
entirely broken, just over-coded - it works equally well with the extra quotes
removed.
Well, my problem is solved and I feel a wee bit better about the
sample...thanks all!
From: Phil Smith
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: SAVE macro
Thanks, Steve. I had searched for that book but somehow wound up in the
Assembler Services Guide, which of course wasn't as helpful.
Removing the extra quotes seems to have fixed it:
SAVE (14,12),,'&SYSPARM &SYSDATE &SYSTIME'
Am I unreasonable to be vaguely horrified that the samples don't even work?
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