From: John Reagan [john.reagan@hp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:49 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: SYS$GRANT_LICENSE output codes

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <op.t1ptcubkhv4qyg@murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>, "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.company> writes:

>            2 hw_id,
>              3 length  fixed bin(15) initial (lmf$k_hw_idlen),
>              3 item    fixed bin(15) initial (lmf$_hw_id),
>              3 bufadr  pointer initial (addr(hardware_id)),
>              3 retlen  fixed bin(31) initial (0),            <===<<< (*)
> 
> SYS$GRANT_LICENSE will want to return the length of the retrieved HW ID.
> (*) Is this specified properly?  Sorry, my PL/I is rusty.
> 

Bingo!  HW_ID & PROD_TOKEN want to return their length.  You can't say 
"don't bother" like you can with other item-based services.  I just 
checked the source to verify that behavior.  Why?  No clue. I didn't see 
a real need to be "different" but that is the way it is coded.

-- 
John Reagan
OpenVMS Pascal/Macro-32/COBOL Project Leader
Hewlett-Packard Company