On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 21:47:56 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote:
>
>Agree to disagree.  I haven't checked the doc and maybe it isn't documented 
>that that field or
>any field is limited to 40 characters, but it is not a bug to be fixed.  It 
>could be enhanced
>in the service stream, but it is most definitely not a defect.   Someone else 
>already
>stated that D OMVS,A=ALL (or something similar) didn't show the entire command.
>Restriction on the display output... not a defect. 
> 
I shall disagree.  For example, suppose there were an option to display
a data set name in that 4-character field.  Some names, probably a
minority, would be truncated.  But if the user enlarged that field, names
were still truncated to 40 characters then padded with blanks, I could
consider that only a defect, not a candidate for RFE.

An earlier ply  pointed a finger at an underlying service.  If so, the SR
should be transferred to that service.

There are multiple ways it could have been done right:
o The caller could provide a variable-length reply buffer.
o The service could return a pointer to a string.

Error handling is left as an exercise for the student.

-- 
gil

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