Length of Dfhcommarea

rupinder · New User Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Location: pune

Display 'Length of Dfhcommarea' Length of Dfhcommarea
I think this should display the length of dfhcommarea that it has received from some calling pgm. But when I try to display it it comes to be zero.
I even tried moving it to working storage variable and then display, but still length comes to be zero.

Is there any way to know the length of dfhcommarea and display it.
Please suggest

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:13 pm

EIBCALEN will contain the commarea length passed to the program. This length can be zero, depending on circumstances.

Aaru · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:01 am

Rupinder,

If your req is to check whether the length of the data passed is equal to the length of the DFHCOMMAREA declared in the linkage section then code as follows

rupinder · New User Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Location: pune

Can I display EIBCALEN

Aaru · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:03 pm

rupinder,

rupinder · New User Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 8 Location: pune

thats nice; :-)

I have tried but gettin only 0000 as display,

I need to know the value of EIBCALEN. and want to display but how , don't know

Robert Sample · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:49 pm

Suggestion: start CEDF before your transaction. Then you can step through the CICS statements until your program gets started. At that point, EIBCALEN is displayed on the screen. If there's a lot of CICS statements before your program, use PF9 to set a stop condition on the LINK or XCTL to your program and suppress the displays.