Thanks for the responses--from what you've said, it seems like MPI types are indeed not guaranteed to be compile-time constants.
However, I worked with the people at IBM, and it seems like the difference in behavior was caused by the IBM compiler, not the Spectrum IBM implementation. Ben
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