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>At 08:42 12/01/1999 , Wayne Capwell wrote: >>All works well when we send less than 680 characters of data. However, >>when the RPG program sends more than 680, the VB dll get an "Automation >>Error" and ceases processing. We have tried several iterations of the >>VB with the same results. We know the data queue contains all the >>information on the AS/400 side. This could be a solution to your problem: In the registry entry for the datasource (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\<datasourcename> for a system datasource), add a new string value named "MapLongVCToVarchar", and set the data value to "1". According to the documentation, this setting "Indicates that longvarchar data types need to be treated as varchars. (VB can not handle longvarchars, so they fail if this flag is not set to 1)." Based on IBM's description, I'd expect the problem to show up if you exceed 256 bytes, not 680, but it's easy enough to try... Pete Hall pbhall@execpc.com http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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